interessant

\ɪn.tə.ʁɛ.ˈsant\

/\ɪn.tə.ʁɛ.ˈsant\/ adj

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The verdict

“interessant” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,907. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#23,907
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
15
tracked misspellings
9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Intéressant.

Corpus desk

Index FR-interessant · interessant · French

interessant · rank #23,907 · 15 variants · 9 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #23,907
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH intenable

Nearest frequency peer: intenable (-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 « interessant »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « interessant » 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).

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

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

Key facts for interessant
PropertyValue
Headwordinteressant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ɪn.tə.ʁɛ.ˈsant\
Letters11
Frequency rank#23,907
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « interessant »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).interessantse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « intenable » (#23,906), « Interpol » (#23,908), « insolent » (#23,905). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « interessant » est au #23,907. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around interessant (IPA \ɪn.tə.ʁɛ.ˈsant\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #23,907 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Intéressant.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for interessant, with forms such as "inetressant", "innteressant", and "inteerssant". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "intéressent", "intéressante", "intéressants", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is interessant, spelled I-N-T-E-R-E-S-S-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Intéressant.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Das Buch solltest du lesen; es ist interessant.
  2. Detlef argumentiert, dass man das Restaurant neu gestalten könnte, um es für die Kunden interessanter zu machen. Emma wendet ein, dass viele Kunden die jetzige Gestaltung loben.

Synonyms

beachtenswert

Antonyms

langweiliguninteressant

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • inetressant
  • innteressant
  • inteerssant
  • interesant
  • interesasnt
  • interessannt
  • interessantt
  • interessatn
  • interessnat
  • interressant
  • intersesant
  • intreessant
  • intteressant
  • itneressant
  • niteressant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of interessant - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

inetressant2innteressant1inteerssant2interesant1interesasnt2interessannt1interessantt1interessatn2
Edit distance from "interessant"

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 "interessant"?
"interessant" is spelled I-N-T-E-R-E-S-S-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɪn.tə.ʁɛ.ˈsant\.
What does "interessant" mean?
As an adjective, "interessant" means: Intéressant.
What words are commonly confused with "interessant"?
"interessant" is commonly confused with "intéressent", "intéressante", "intéressants". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "interessant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "interessant" is \ɪn.tə.ʁɛ.ˈsant\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "interessant" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

inévitables#23,909islamophobe#23,911inestimable#23,902minimaliste#23,936

Similar misspelling depth

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

impériales15 variantsméritaient15 variantsnégociable15 variantsdépensent15 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list