interview

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The English entry for interview is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɪn.tə.vjuː/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,458 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for interview, with forms such as "inetrview", "innterview", and "interivew". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "interviewed", "interviewer", "interviewee", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Old French entreveue (French entrevue), feminine singular past participle of entrevëoir, from entre- + vëoir (“to see”). Equivalent to inter- + view. 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 interview, spelled I-N-T-E-R-V-I-E-W, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.