intern
\ɪnˈtɛʁn\
The verdict
“intern” is uncommon French (frequency #64,539 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,539
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Interne, qui est à l’intérieur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intern · intern · French
intern · rank #64,539 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,539
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH installons
Nearest frequency peer: installons (-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 « intern »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- injecteurs
injecteurs
35,465 corpus weight
- inscrivit
inscrivit
35,464 corpus weight
- installons
installons
35,463 corpus weight
- intern
intern
35,462 corpus weight
- interviendr…
interviendrait
35,461 corpus weight
- Iroise
Iroise
35,460 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « intern » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intern |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɪnˈtɛʁn\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,539 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « intern » en français
Rare enough to double-check
intern is uncommon French at frequency #64,539 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɪnˈtɛʁn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Interne, qui est à l’intérieur.".
intern has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is intern, spelled I-N-T-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1Interne, qui est à l’intérieur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how intern appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Seit 20 Jahren fungiert sie als interne Auditorin in ihrer Firma.
Antonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).