interminable
\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.mi.nabl\
The verdict
“interminable” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,911. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,911
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui ne peut être terminé
Corpus desk
Index FR-interminable · interminable · French
interminable · rank #15,911 · 18 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #15,911
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inspirent
Nearest frequency peer: inspirent (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « interminable »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- infliger
infliger
84,093 corpus weight
- insensible
insensible
84,092 corpus weight
- inspirent
inspirent
84,091 corpus weight
- interminable
interminable
84,090 corpus weight
- interprétée
interprétée
84,089 corpus weight
- intrigues
intrigues
84,088 corpus weight
What this shows « interminable » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | interminable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.mi.nabl\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #15,911 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « interminable »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around interminable (IPA \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.mi.nabl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,911 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for interminable, with forms such as "inetrminable", "innterminable", and "intemrinable". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "interminables", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is interminable, spelled I-N-T-E-R-M-I-N-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui ne peut être terminé
- 2Qui dure très longtemps.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how interminable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’étape reine de cette Vuelta a couronné dimanche le jeune Néerlandais Thymen Arensman, impressionnant sur les pentes de l’interminable montée finale (22,3 km à 7,9 %) vers la Sierra Nevada, à 2500 m d’altitude.
La nature se réveillait de son long sommeil, après l'interminable nuit de l'hiver, et souriait en s'éveillant.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inetrminable
- innterminable
- intemrinable
- interimnable
- intermianble
- interminabble
- interminabel
- interminablle
- interminalbe
- interminbale
- interminnable
- intermminable
- intermniable
- interrminable
- intreminable
- intterminable
- itnerminable
- niterminable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of interminable - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "interminable", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).