intéressait

\ɛ̃.te.ʁɛ.sɛ\

/\ɛ̃.te.ʁɛ.sɛ\/ verb

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The verdict

“intéressait” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,289. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#14,289
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
15
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de intéresser.

Corpus desk

Index FR-interessait · intéressait · French

intéressait · rank #14,289 · 15 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #14,289
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH internat

Nearest frequency peer: internat (-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 « intéressait »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « intéressait » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

intéressait vs intéressent
82% similar
intéressait vs interessant
82% similar
intéressait vs intéressante
83% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for intéressait
PropertyValue
Headwordintéressait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛ̃.te.ʁɛ.sɛ\
Letters11
Frequency rank#14,289
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « intéressait »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).intéressaitse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « internat » (#14,288), « irresponsable » (#14,290), « innocente » (#14,287). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « intéressait » est au #14,289. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around intéressait (IPA \ɛ̃.te.ʁɛ.sɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,289 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de intéresser.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for intéressait, with forms such as "inntéressait", "interessait", and "intréessait". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "intéressent", "interessant", "intéressante", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is intéressait, spelled I-N-T-É-R-E-S-S-A-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de intéresser.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how intéressait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Mais Sempé ne s’intéressait pas à cette compétition entre adultes.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • inntéressait
  • interessait
  • intréessait
  • inttéressait
  • intéerssait
  • intéresait
  • intéresasit
  • intéressaitt
  • intéressati
  • intéressiat
  • intérressait
  • intérsesait
  • inétressait
  • itnéressait
  • nitéressait

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of intéressait - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

inntéressait1interessait1intréessait2inttéressait1intéerssait2intéresait1intéresasit2intéressaitt1
Edit distance from "intéressait"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "intéressait"?
"intéressait" is spelled I-N-T-É-R-E-S-S-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.te.ʁɛ.sɛ\.
What does "intéressait" mean?
As a verb, "intéressait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de intéresser.
What words are commonly confused with "intéressait"?
"intéressait" is commonly confused with "intéressent", "interessant", "intéressante". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "intéressait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "intéressait" is \ɛ̃.te.ʁɛ.sɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "intéressait" come from?
"intéressait" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "intéressait", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

horizontale#14,280profondeurs#14,332continental#14,232constituait#14,230

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

meurtriers15 variantsdésignant15 variantsdéplacent15 variantsconfessions15 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list