internautes
\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.not\
The verdict
“internautes” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,837. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,837
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de internaute.
Corpus desk
Index FR-internautes · internautes · French
internautes · rank #6,837 · 16 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #6,837
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH intellectuel
Nearest frequency peer: intellectuel (-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 « internautes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- id
id
93,167 corpus weight
- impatience
impatience
93,166 corpus weight
- intellectuel
intellectuel
93,165 corpus weight
- internautes
internautes
93,164 corpus weight
- invitée
invitée
93,163 corpus weight
- journalisme
journalisme
93,162 corpus weight
What this shows « internautes » 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 | internautes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.not\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #6,837 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « internautes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around internautes (IPA \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.not\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,837 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de internaute.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for internautes, with forms such as "inetrnautes", "innternautes", and "intenrautes". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "internaute", 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is internautes, spelled I-N-T-E-R-N-A-U-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de internaute.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how internautes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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),…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inetrnautes
- innternautes
- intenrautes
- interanutes
- internatues
- internauets
- internautess
- internautse
- internauttes
- internnautes
- internuates
- interrnautes
- intrenautes
- intternautes
- itnernautes
- niternautes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of internautes - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).