interdire
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,682
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
interdire is aFrenchverb. It means: Défendre quelque chose à quelqu’un, ne pas lui permettre par une décision d'autorité. Pronounced \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.diʁ\. It ranks #4,682 in French word frequency. Often confused with interdit and interdis.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | interdire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.diʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,682 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for interdire is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.diʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,682 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for interdire, with forms such as "inetrdire", "innterdire", and "intedrire". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "interdit", "interdis", "interdite", 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 interdire, spelled I-N-T-E-R-D-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Défendre quelque chose à quelqu’un, ne pas lui permettre par une décision d'autorité.
- 2Défendre à un ecclésiastique l’exercice des ordres sacrés, ou à tout ecclésiastique la célébration des sacrements et du service divin dans les lieux marqués par la sentence.
- 3Défendre à quelqu’un, temporairement ou pour toujours, de continuer l’exercice de ses fonctions.
- 4Ôter à quelqu’un la libre disposition de ses biens, et même de sa personne.
- 5Empêcher.
- 6Étonner, troubler quelqu’un, en sorte qu’il ne sache ce qu’il dit ni ce qu’il fait.
- 7S'empêcher, se défendre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: inetrdire,innterdire,intedrire,interddire,interdier,interdirre,interdrie,interidre,interrdire,intredire,intterdire,itnerdire,niterdire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for interdire
Misspelling Variants of "interdire"
Frequency rank: #4,682 in French
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