intéressante

\ɛ̃.te.ʁɛ.sɑ̃t\

/\ɛ̃.te.ʁɛ.sɑ̃t\/ noun

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The verdict

“intéressante” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,619. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,619
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
17
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme ou fille intéressante ou qui se croit telle.

Corpus desk

Index FR-interessante · intéressante · French

intéressante · rank #3,619 · 17 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,619
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 17 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH indispensable

Nearest frequency peer: indispensable (-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 « intéressante »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « intéressante » 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).

intéressante vs intéressent
83% similar
intéressante vs intéressants
92% similar
intéressante vs intéressantes
92% similar

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

Key facts for intéressante
PropertyValue
Headwordintéressante
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛ̃.te.ʁɛ.sɑ̃t\
Letters12
Frequency rank#3,619
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « intéressante »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).intéressantese 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 « indispensable » (#3,618), « investir » (#3,620), « joyeux » (#3,621). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « intéressante » est au #3,619. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 17 spelling variants around intéressante (IPA \ɛ̃.te.ʁɛ.sɑ̃t\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,619 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Femme ou fille intéressante ou qui se croit telle.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for intéressante, with forms such as "inntéressante", "interessante", and "intréessante". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "intéressent", "intéressants", "intéressantes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 intéressante, spelled I-N-T-É-R-E-S-S-A-N-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Femme ou fille intéressante ou qui se croit telle.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Seul le costaud ‒ nommé Bradford ‒ s’est obstiné à faire la moue, sous-entendant que j’en rajoutais pour faire l’intéressante.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • inntéressante
  • interessante
  • intréessante
  • inttéressante
  • intéerssante
  • intéresante
  • intéresasnte
  • intéressanet
  • intéressannte
  • intéressantte
  • intéressatne
  • intéressnate
  • intérressante
  • intérsesante
  • inétressante
  • itnéressante
  • nitéressante

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

inntéressante1interessante1intréessante2inttéressante1intéerssante2intéresante1intéresasnte2intéressanet2
Edit distance from "intéressante"

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 "intéressante"?
"intéressante" is spelled I-N-T-É-R-E-S-S-A-N-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.te.ʁɛ.sɑ̃t\.
What does "intéressante" mean?
As a noun, "intéressante" means: Femme ou fille intéressante ou qui se croit telle.
What words are commonly confused with "intéressante"?
"intéressante" is commonly confused with "intéressent", "intéressants", "intéressantes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "intéressante"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "intéressante" is \ɛ̃.te.ʁɛ.sɑ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "intéressante" come from?
"intéressante" 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 "intéressante", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).

répartition17 variantsgénérations17 variantsprésentent17 variantsélectriques17 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list