interesting
\ˈɪn.tɹɪs.tɪŋ\
The verdict
“interesting” is uncommon French (frequency #62,374 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,374
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Intéressant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-interesting · interesting · French
interesting · rank #62,374 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,374
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH intelligibili…
Nearest frequency peer: intelligibilité (-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 « interesting »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- instruites
instruites
37,630 corpus weight
- intellectua…
intellectualisme
37,629 corpus weight
- intelligibi…
intelligibilité
37,628 corpus weight
- interesting
interesting
37,627 corpus weight
- interrogate…
interrogateur
37,626 corpus weight
- interrégion…
interrégional
37,625 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « interesting » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | interesting |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈɪn.tɹɪs.tɪŋ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #62,374 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « interesting » en français
Rare enough to double-check
interesting is uncommon French at frequency #62,374 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈɪn.tɹɪs.tɪŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Intéressant.".
interesting has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 interesting, spelled I-N-T-E-R-E-S-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Intéressant.
Antonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).