interfèrent
\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.fɛʁ\
The verdict
“interfèrent” is uncommon French (frequency #63,088 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,088
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de interférer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-interferent · interfèrent · French
interfèrent · rank #63,088 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,088
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH interconnexio…
Nearest frequency peer: interconnexions (-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 « interfèrent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- intempestif
intempestif
36,916 corpus weight
- interconnec…
interconnectés
36,915 corpus weight
- interconnex…
interconnexions
36,914 corpus weight
- interfèrent
interfèrent
36,913 corpus weight
- internacion…
internacional
36,912 corpus weight
- internats
internats
36,911 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « interfèrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | interfèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.fɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #63,088 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « interfèrent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
interfèrent is uncommon French at frequency #63,088 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.fɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for interfèrent in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 interfèrent, spelled I-N-T-E-R-F-È-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de interférer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de 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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