interpeler
French, verb/ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.le/
interpeler is spelled I-N-T-E-R-P-E-L-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 83,718th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Interpeler is a French verb meaning “post-1990 spelling of interpeller” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante orthographique du verbe interpeller”.
What does interpeler mean in English?
verb
- 1
post-1990 spelling of interpeller
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Variante orthographique du verbe interpeller.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of interpeler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- interpelant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- interpelé participle past
- interpelle first-person indicative present
- interpèle first-person indicative present
- interpelles indicative present second-person
- interpèles indicative present second-person
- interpelons first-person indicative plural
- interpelez indicative plural present
- interpellent indicative plural present
- interpèlent indicative plural present
- interpelais first-person imperfect indicative
- interpelait imperfect indicative singular
- interpelions first-person imperfect indicative
- interpeliez imperfect indicative plural
- interpelaient imperfect indicative plural
- interpelai first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce interpeler?
- /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.le/
- \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.le\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is interpeler in French?
interpeler appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).