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[–] antimidas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 hours ago

One might think that's a misspelling of intellectual, but it's actually an old English loan of a Swedish compound word consisting of the word inte meaning not, and lektuell meaning literate. As such it means illiterate, which is the correct word to use when describing someone who just misspelled intellectual.