interpeller
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,173
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
interpeller is aFrenchverb. It means: Adresser la parole, d’une façon plus ou moins brusque, à quelqu’un pour lui demander quelque chose. Pronounced \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.le\. Often confused with interpellés and interpelle.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | interpeller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.le\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #20,173 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for interpeller is 11 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.le\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,173 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for interpeller, with forms such as "inetrpeller", "innterpeller", and "intepreller". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "interpellés", "interpelle", "interpellée", 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 interpeller, spelled I-N-T-E-R-P-E-L-L-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Adresser la parole, d’une façon plus ou moins brusque, à quelqu’un pour lui demander quelque chose.
- 2Susciter une réflexion ; provoquer un avis.
- 3Sommer un témoin ou une des parties de s’expliquer sur la vérité ou la fausseté d’un fait.
- 4Demander à un ministre de s’expliquer sur un acte de son administration, demander au gouvernement de s’expliquer sur sa politique.
- 5Poser (à un individu) une ou des questions précises au cours d’une enquête, d’un contrôle de police et, éventuellement, mettre en état d’arrestation.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: inetrpeller,innterpeller,intepreller,interepller,interpelelr,interpeler,interpellerr,interpellre,interpleler,interppeller,interrpeller,intrepeller,intterpeller,itnerpeller,niterpeller
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for interpeller
Misspelling Variants of "interpeller"
Frequency rank: #20,173 in French
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Nearby French words
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