interpellant
\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“interpellant” is uncommon French (frequency #70,746 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,746
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de interpeller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-interpellant · interpellant · French
interpellant · rank #70,746 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,746
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH intercommunaux
Nearest frequency peer: intercommunaux (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « interpellant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- instiller
instiller
29,258 corpus weight
- interallié
interallié
29,257 corpus weight
- intercommun…
intercommunaux
29,256 corpus weight
- interpellant
interpellant
29,255 corpus weight
- intuitifs
intuitifs
29,254 corpus weight
- inversent
inversent
29,253 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « interpellant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | interpellant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #70,746 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « interpellant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
interpellant is uncommon French at frequency #70,746 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de interpeller.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for interpellant in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is interpellant, spelled I-N-T-E-R-P-E-L-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de interpeller.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how interpellant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et, que le moine réapparût ou non, les soirs de tempête, sous la forme d’un chien hurlant à la mort ou de quelque bête marine monstrueuse interpellant en un patois rigoureux les passants affolés, ne ressortissait guère aux devoirs coutumiers de sa charge, qui était d’instruire exclusivement les affaires criminelles ou correctionnelles actuelles, en tout c…
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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