intérêt général
\ɛ̃.te.ʁɛ ʒe.ne.ʁal\
The verdict
“intérêt général” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Principe selon lequel l’action de l’État et des collectivités doit viser le bien de la collectivité tout entière et peut, à ce titre, justifier des limitations aux droits individuels.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intérêt général |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.te.ʁɛ ʒe.ne.ʁal\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “intérêt général” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for intérêt général is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.te.ʁɛ ʒe.ne.ʁal\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for intérêt général in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is intérêt général, spelled I-N-T-É-R-Ê-T- -G-É-N-É-R-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Principe selon lequel l’action de l’État et des collectivités doit viser le bien de la collectivité tout entière et peut, à ce titre, justifier des limitations aux droits individuels.
- 2Ce qui est bénéfique ou utile à la collectivité dans son ensemble, par opposition à ce qui sert des intérêts particuliers.
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “intérêt général”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is I-N-T-É-R-Ê-T- -G-É-N-É-R-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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