interpol

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The English entry for Interpol is 8 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌʔin.teɾˈpol/. Corpus data places it at rank #23,874 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "The International Criminal Police Organization, an international organization facilitating police cooperation.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for Interpol, with forms such as "inetrpol", "innterpol", and "inteprol". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "interval", "internal", "interior", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: Blend of international + police, a syllabic abbreviation. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is Interpol, spelled I-N-T-E-R-P-O-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.