interfère
\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.fɛʁ\
The verdict
“interfère” is uncommon French (frequency #52,124 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,124
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif du verbe interférer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-interfere · interfère · French
interfère · rank #52,124 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,124
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH intentionné
Nearest frequency peer: intentionné (-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 « interfère »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- inhumanité
inhumanité
47,880 corpus weight
- insurmontab…
insurmontables
47,879 corpus weight
- intentionné
intentionné
47,878 corpus weight
- interfère
interfère
47,877 corpus weight
- intervenante
intervenante
47,876 corpus weight
- interventio…
interventionniste
47,875 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « interfère » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | interfère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.fɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,124 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « interfère » en français
Rare enough to double-check
interfère is uncommon French at frequency #52,124 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.fɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for interfère in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 interfère, spelled I-N-T-E-R-F-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif du verbe interférer.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif du verbe interférer.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif du verbe interférer.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif du verbe interférer.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent du verbe interférer.
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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