interceptant
\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“interceptant” is uncommon French (frequency #93,906 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,906
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de intercepter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-interceptant · interceptant · French
interceptant · rank #93,906 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,906
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inscriront
Nearest frequency peer: inscriront (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « interceptant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- inputs
inputs
6,098 corpus weight
- inscriront
inscriront
6,096 corpus weight
- interceptant
interceptant
6,095 corpus weight
- interconnec…
interconnectées
6,094 corpus weight
- intergalact…
intergalactiques
6,093 corpus weight
- internation…
internationaliser
6,092 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « interceptant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | interceptant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #93,906 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « interceptant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
interceptant is uncommon French at frequency #93,906 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de intercepter.".
Zero misspellings are on record for interceptant in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is interceptant, spelled I-N-T-E-R-C-E-P-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de intercepter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how interceptant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En interceptant les communications satellites des retransmissions, les escrocs gagnaient de précieuses secondes sur les autres bookmakeurs.
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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