internaute
\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.not\
The verdict
“internaute” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,919. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,919
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Utilisateur de l'internet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-internaute · internaute · French
internaute · rank #16,919 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,919
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH intendant
Nearest frequency peer: intendant (-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 « internaute »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- insistant
insistant
83,084 corpus weight
- intendant
intendant
83,083 corpus weight
- internaute
internaute
83,082 corpus weight
- intervalles
intervalles
83,081 corpus weight
- into
into
83,080 corpus weight
- iraniens
iraniens
83,079 corpus weight
What this shows « internaute » 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 | internaute |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.not\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #16,919 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « internaute »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around internaute (IPA \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.not\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,919 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Utilisateur de l'internet.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for internaute, with forms such as "inetrnaute", "innternaute", and "intenraute". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "internautes", "internat", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is internaute, spelled I-N-T-E-R-N-A-U-T-E.
Definition
- 1Utilisateur de l'internet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how internaute appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au-delà de cet enjeu démocratique évident, les internautes ne vont pas tarder à comprendre que ce qui est pour eux un outil de liberté individuelle dépend en fait d'une lourde infrastructure technique, économique et cognitive, bien différente de l'idéal de liberté et d'autogestion présent dans leur imagination.
Sur ce principe existe ainsi une élite ultra-resserrée de méga-nuages ayant autour d’eux des millions et parfois un milliard d’internautes : Google (recherche et outils en ligne), Wikipedia (savoir), Amazon (commerce), Linkedin (gestion de carrières), Facebook (vie sociale), Microsoft (logiciels et services en ligne), Apple (matériel et magasin en ligne),…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inetrnaute
- innternaute
- intenraute
- interanute
- internatue
- internauet
- internautte
- internnaute
- internuate
- interrnaute
- intrenaute
- intternaute
- itnernaute
- niternaute
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of internaute - 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
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).