entrevue
\ɑ̃.tʁə.vy\
The verdict
“entrevue” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,559. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,559
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rencontre concertée entre deux ou plusieurs personnes pour se voir, pour parler d’affaires ou de tout autre sujet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-entrevue · entrevue · French
entrevue · rank #7,559 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,559
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enlèvement
Nearest frequency peer: enlèvement (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « entrevue »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- détenu
détenu
92,445 corpus weight
- Ei
Ei
92,444 corpus weight
- enlèvement
enlèvement
92,443 corpus weight
- entrevue
entrevue
92,442 corpus weight
- essentiels
essentiels
92,441 corpus weight
- estimer
estimer
92,440 corpus weight
What this shows « entrevue » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entrevue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tʁə.vy\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,559 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « entrevue »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around entrevue (IPA \ɑ̃.tʁə.vy\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,559 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for entrevue, with forms such as "enntrevue", "enrtevue", and "entervue". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "entrevues", "entrée", "entrave", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is entrevue, spelled E-N-T-R-E-V-U-E.
Definition
- 1Rencontre concertée entre deux ou plusieurs personnes pour se voir, pour parler d’affaires ou de tout autre sujet.
- 2Interview. Échange de questions-réponses entre un journaliste et une personne (ou un groupe de personnes) interrogées sur un sujet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how entrevue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Roi a une entrevue à Nice avec le Pape Paul III, qui ménage une trêve de dix ans entre les Puissances belligérantes.
Ménager une entrevue entre deux personnes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- enntrevue
- enrtevue
- entervue
- entreuve
- entreveu
- entrevvue
- entrrevue
- entrveue
- enttrevue
- etnrevue
- netrevue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of entrevue - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "entrevue", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).