interest
\ˈɪn.tɹɪst\
The verdict
“interest” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,908. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,908
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Intérêt.
Corpus desk
Index FR-interest · interest · French
interest · rank #36,908 · 11 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,908
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH instituer
Nearest frequency peer: instituer (-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 « interest »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- inexcusable
inexcusable
63,097 corpus weight
- instituer
instituer
63,094 corpus weight
- interest
interest
63,093 corpus weight
- interprofes…
interprofessionnel
63,092 corpus weight
- interrogeait
interrogeait
63,091 corpus weight
- interviens
interviens
63,090 corpus weight
What this shows « interest » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | interest |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɪn.tɹɪst\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #36,908 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « interest »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around interest (IPA \ˈɪn.tɹɪst\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,908 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for interest, with forms such as "inetrest", "innterest", and "inteerst". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "intérêt", "Internet", "intérêts", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 interest, spelled I-N-T-E-R-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1Intérêt.
- 2Intérêt.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inetrest
- innterest
- inteerst
- interesst
- interestt
- interrest
- interset
- intreest
- intterest
- itnerest
- niterest
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of interest - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).