intercepter
\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.te\
The verdict
“intercepter” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,360. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,360
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arrêter, interrompre le cours direct de quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intercepter · intercepter · French
intercepter · rank #21,360 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #21,360
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH interactif
Nearest frequency peer: interactif (-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 « intercepter »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- instincts
instincts
78,643 corpus weight
- interactif
interactif
78,642 corpus weight
- intercepter
intercepter
78,641 corpus weight
- interrogent
interrogent
78,640 corpus weight
- interrompt
interrompt
78,639 corpus weight
- interviewer
interviewer
78,638 corpus weight
What this shows « intercepter » 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 | intercepter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.te\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #21,360 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « intercepter »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around intercepter (IPA \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.sɛp.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #21,360 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for intercepter, with forms such as "inetrcepter", "inntercepter", and "intecrepter". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "intercepte", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is intercepter, spelled I-N-T-E-R-C-E-P-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Arrêter, interrompre le cours direct de quelque chose.
- 2S’emparer par surprise de ce qui est adressé, envoyé à quelqu’un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how intercepter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Intercepter les communications.
Les nuages interceptent les rayons du soleil.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inetrcepter
- inntercepter
- intecrepter
- interccepter
- intercepetr
- interceppter
- intercepterr
- interceptre
- interceptter
- intercetper
- intercpeter
- interecpter
- interrcepter
- intrecepter
- inttercepter
- itnercepter
- nitercepter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of intercepter - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "intercepter", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).