interceptent
\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛpt\
The verdict
“interceptent” is uncommon French (frequency #75,794 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,794
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de intercepter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-interceptent · interceptent · French
interceptent · rank #75,794 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,794
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH insultaient
Nearest frequency peer: insultaient (-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 « interceptent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- institua
institua
24,210 corpus weight
- institutes
institutes
24,209 corpus weight
- insultaient
insultaient
24,208 corpus weight
- interceptent
interceptent
24,207 corpus weight
- intercom
intercom
24,206 corpus weight
- interurbains
interurbains
24,205 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « interceptent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | interceptent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛpt\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #75,794 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « interceptent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
interceptent is uncommon French at frequency #75,794 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛpt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for interceptent in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is interceptent, spelled I-N-T-E-R-C-E-P-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de intercepter.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de intercepter.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).