internat
\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.na\
The verdict
“internat” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,288. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,288
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État d’un élève qui loge dans son lieu d’enseignement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-internat · internat · French
internat · rank #14,288 · 12 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,288
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH innocente
Nearest frequency peer: innocente (-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 « internat »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Indochine
Indochine
85,716 corpus weight
- inertie
inertie
85,715 corpus weight
- innocente
innocente
85,714 corpus weight
- internat
internat
85,713 corpus weight
- intéressait
intéressait
85,712 corpus weight
- irresponsab…
irresponsable
85,711 corpus weight
What this shows « internat » 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 | internat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.na\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,288 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « internat »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around internat (IPA \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.na\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,288 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for internat, with forms such as "inetrnat", "innternat", and "intenrat". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "interné", "Internet", "internés", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is internat, spelled I-N-T-E-R-N-A-T.
Definition
- 1État d’un élève qui loge dans son lieu d’enseignement.
- 2Ce lieu d’enseignement lui-même.
- 3Fonction des internes dans un hôpital.
- 4Concours que doivent subir les externes des hôpitaux pour devenir internes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how internat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sa liberté, son quant à soi, le plus grand bien, après l'incarcération de six années d’internat scolaire.
Mes potes de l’internat ont eu la mauvaise idée de mettre tous les lits en cathédrale et même de jeter un matelas par la fenêtre.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inetrnat
- innternat
- intenrat
- interant
- internatt
- internnat
- internta
- interrnat
- intrenat
- intternat
- itnernat
- niternat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of internat - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "internat", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).