intéressais
\ɛ̃.te.ʁɛ.sɛ\
The verdict
“intéressais” is uncommon French (frequency #66,833 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,833
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de intéresser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-interessais · intéressais · French
intéressais · rank #66,833 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,833
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH interclubs
Nearest frequency peer: interclubs (-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 « intéressais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- instructifs
instructifs
33,171 corpus weight
- intenables
intenables
33,170 corpus weight
- interclubs
interclubs
33,169 corpus weight
- intéressais
intéressais
33,168 corpus weight
- intéressero…
intéresseront
33,167 corpus weight
- inusitée
inusitée
33,166 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « intéressais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intéressais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.te.ʁɛ.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #66,833 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « intéressais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
intéressais is uncommon French at frequency #66,833 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃.te.ʁɛ.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
intéressais has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is intéressais, spelled I-N-T-É-R-E-S-S-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de intéresser.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de intéresser.
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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