interaction

/\ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁak.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,180

in French word usage

Misspellings

16

tracked variants

Confusables

8

similar word pairs

interaction is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action ou influence réciproque qui peut s’établir entre deux objets ou plus. Pronounced \ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁak.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #9,180 in French word frequency. Often confused with interactive and interdiction.

Key facts for interaction
PropertyValue
Headwordinteraction
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁak.sjɔ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#9,180
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of interaction in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for interaction is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁak.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,180 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for interaction, with forms such as "inetraction", "innteraction", and "intearction". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "interactive", "interdiction", "interactions", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is interaction, spelled I-N-T-E-R-A-C-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action ou influence réciproque qui peut s’établir entre deux objets ou plus.
  2. 2
    En parlant des interactions élémentaires.
  3. 3
    Influence réciproque pouvant s’établir entre deux personnes ou plus. Une interaction se décompose en plusieurs séquences, échanges et tours de parole.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: inetraction,innteraction,intearction,interacction,interaciton,interactino,interactionn,interactoin,interacttion,interatcion,intercation,interraction,intreaction,intteraction,itneraction,niteraction

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for interaction

Misspelling Variants of "interaction"

inetraction11innteraction12intearction11interacction12interaciton11interactino11interactionn12interactoin11
Misspelling Variants of "interaction"

Frequency rank: #9,180 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "interaction"?
"interaction" is spelled I-N-T-E-R-A-C-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁak.sjɔ̃\.
What does "interaction" mean?
As a noun, "interaction" means: Action ou influence réciproque qui peut s’établir entre deux objets ou plus.
What words are commonly confused with "interaction"?
"interaction" is commonly confused with "interactive", "interdiction", "interactions". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "interaction"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "interaction" is \ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁak.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "interaction" come from?
"interaction" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.