interphone

\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.fɔn\

/\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.fɔn\/ noun

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The verdict

“interphone” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,087. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#31,087
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
15
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Téléphone connecté à un réseau intérieur à un immeuble, hôtel, etc., souvent équipé d’un haut-parleur.

Corpus desk

Index FR-interphone · interphone · French

interphone · rank #31,087 · 15 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #31,087
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH interné

Nearest frequency peer: interné (-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 « interphone »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « interphone » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

interphone vs interpose
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for interphone
PropertyValue
Headwordinterphone
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.fɔn\
Letters10
Frequency rank#31,087
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « interphone »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).interphonese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « interné » (#31,086), « interprètent » (#31,088), « instruits » (#31,085). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « interphone » est au #31,087. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around interphone (IPA \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.fɔn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,087 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for interphone, with forms such as "inetrphone", "innterphone", and "inteprhone". 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, "interpose", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is interphone, spelled I-N-T-E-R-P-H-O-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Téléphone connecté à un réseau intérieur à un immeuble, hôtel, etc., souvent équipé d’un haut-parleur.
  2. 2
    Dispositif acoustique électronique interne à un immeuble, placé à l’entrée et dans un ou plusieurs pièces de celui-ci, afin d’en contrôler l’accès à l’aide d’un ouvre-porte.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how interphone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Tant pis! dit le Président avant d’appuyer sur l’interphone : Caroline, allez-y, faites entrer.
  2. Ainsi, c’est après avoir appelé sa secrétaire sur l’interphone que Stahr apprend la tentative de suicide d’un de ses caméramen, […].

Synonyms

portier électroniqueparlophone

This word in other languages

intercom(English)intercomunicador(Español)Gegensprechanlage(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • inetrphone
  • innterphone
  • inteprhone
  • interhpone
  • interphhone
  • interphnoe
  • interphoen
  • interphonne
  • interpohne
  • interpphone
  • interrphone
  • intrephone
  • intterphone
  • itnerphone
  • niterphone

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of interphone - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

inetrphone2innterphone1inteprhone2interhpone2interphhone1interphnoe2interphoen2interphonne1
Edit distance from "interphone"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "interphone"?
"interphone" is spelled I-N-T-E-R-P-H-O-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.fɔn\.
What does "interphone" mean?
As a noun, "interphone" means: Téléphone connecté à un réseau intérieur à un immeuble, hôtel, etc., souvent équipé d’un haut-parleur.
What words are commonly confused with "interphone"?
"interphone" is commonly confused with "interpose". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "interphone"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "interphone" is \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.fɔn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "interphone" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "interphone", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

instituant#31,084intéresses#31,093informatif#31,079indonésien#31,078

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

interrompus15 variantsjusticiers15 variantsmaghrébin15 variantsfructifier15 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list