interférence
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#25,367
in French word usage
Misspellings
19
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
interférence is aFrenchnoun. It means: Phénomène dans lequel deux vibrations s’annulent en se superposant. Pronounced \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.fe.ʁɑ̃s\. Often confused with interférences.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | interférence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.fe.ʁɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #25,367 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for interférence is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.fe.ʁɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #25,367 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for interférence, with forms such as "inetrférence", "innterférence", and "intefrérence". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "interférences", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 interférence, spelled I-N-T-E-R-F-É-R-E-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Phénomène dans lequel deux vibrations s’annulent en se superposant.
- 2Phénomène résultant de la superposition d’au moins deux oscillations ou ondes cohérentes de même nature et de fréquences égales ou voisines; ce phénomène se manifeste par une variation dans l’espace ou dans le temps de l’amplitude de la résultante des ondes ou oscillations superposées.
- 3Intervention d’un élément extérieur dans un problème, une situation, un processus.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: inetrférence,innterférence,intefrérence,interference,interfférence,interfréence,interféernce,interférecne,interférencce,interférenec,interférennce,interférnece,interférrence,interrférence,interéfrence,intreférence,intterférence,itnerférence,niterférence
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "interférence"
Frequency rank: #25,367 in French
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