interpreter
The verdict
“interpreter” is uncommon French (frequency #81,268 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,268
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Interprète.
Corpus desk
Index FR-interpreter · interpreter · French
interpreter · rank #81,268 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,268
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH intensifiant
Nearest frequency peer: intensifiant (-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 « interpreter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- insistantes
insistantes
18,737 corpus weight
- inspires
inspires
18,736 corpus weight
- integre
integre
18,735 corpus weight
- intensifiant
intensifiant
18,734 corpus weight
- interpreter
interpreter
18,733 corpus weight
- interstice
interstice
18,732 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « interpreter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | interpreter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #81,268 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « interpreter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
interpreter is uncommon French at frequency #81,268 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for interpreter, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is interpreter, spelled I-N-T-E-R-P-R-E-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Interprète.
- 2Interpréteur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how interpreter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In this C code snippet, a program coded in the C language embeds the Python interpreter by linking in its libraries and passes it a Python assignment statement string to run.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).