Internet

/\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.nɛt\/ name

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#614

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

10

similar word pairs

Internet is aFrenchname. It means: Réseau de télécommunication international reliant des ordinateurs à l’aide du protocole IP. Il sert de support à la transmission de nombreuses données, notamment des pages Web, des courriels et des... Pronounced \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.nɛt\. It ranks #614 in French word frequency. Often confused with intranet and internets.

Key facts for Internet
PropertyValue
HeadwordInternet
LanguageFrench
Part of speechName
IPA\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.nɛt\
Letters8
Frequency rank#614
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Internet in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for Internet is 8 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.nɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #614 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for Internet, with forms such as "inetrnet", "innternet", and "intenret". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "intranet", "internets", "intérêt", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Internet, spelled I-N-T-E-R-N-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Réseau de télécommunication international reliant des ordinateurs à l’aide du protocole IP. Il sert de support à la transmission de nombreuses données, notamment des pages Web, des courriels et des vidéos.
  2. 2
    Se dit des protocoles permettant de faire fonctionner Internet (IP et TCP), ou des systèmes qui l’utilisent pour la transmission de données.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: inetrnet,innternet,intenret,interent,internett,internnet,internte,interrnet,intrenet,intternet,itnernet,niternet

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Internet

Misspelling Variants of "Internet"

inetrnet8innternet9intenret8interent8internett9internnet9internte8interrnet9
Misspelling Variants of "Internet"

Frequency rank: #614 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Internet"?
"Internet" is spelled I-N-T-E-R-N-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.nɛt\.
What does "Internet" mean?
As a name, "Internet" means: Réseau de télécommunication international reliant des ordinateurs à l’aide du protocole IP. Il sert de support à la transmission de nombreuses données, notamment des pages Web, des courriels et des...
What words are commonly confused with "Internet"?
"Internet" is commonly confused with "intranet", "internets", "intérêt". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Internet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Internet" is \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.nɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Internet" come from?
"Internet" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.