international
\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.na.sjɔ.nal\
The verdict
“international” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #923. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #923
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a lieu de nation à nation, entre plusieurs nations.
Corpus desk
Index FR-international · international · French
international · rank #923 · 19 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #923
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH groupes
Nearest frequency peer: groupes (-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 « international »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- faux
faux
99,081 corpus weight
- forces
forces
99,080 corpus weight
- groupes
groupes
99,079 corpus weight
- internation…
international
99,078 corpus weight
- morts
morts
99,077 corpus weight
- Note
Note
99,076 corpus weight
What this shows « international » 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 | international |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.na.sjɔ.nal\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #923 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « international »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around international (IPA \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.na.sjɔ.nal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #923 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui a lieu de nation à nation, entre plusieurs nations.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for international, with forms such as "inetrnational", "innternational", and "intenrational". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "internationale", "internationaux", "internationales", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is international, spelled I-N-T-E-R-N-A-T-I-O-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui a lieu de nation à nation, entre plusieurs nations.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how international appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Du haut en bas de l'échelle, tous les membres d'une armée vraiment solide ont leur pensée tendue vers cette issue catastrophique des conflits internationaux.
Olivier Rousteing, chez Balmain, est loué pour « son style ultraglamour et flamboyant » qui lui a assuré le succès auprès d’un public jeune, international et connecté.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inetrnational
- innternational
- intenrational
- interantional
- internaitonal
- internatinoal
- internatioanl
- internationall
- internationla
- internationnal
- internatoinal
- internattional
- internnational
- interntaional
- interrnational
- intrenational
- intternational
- itnernational
- niternational
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of international - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).