interpreter

noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « interpreter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for interpreter
PropertyValue
Headwordinterpreter
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Frequency rank#81,268
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « interpreter » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).interpretertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « intensifiant » (#81,267), « interstice » (#81,269), « integre » (#81,266). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « interpreter » est au #81,268. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Interprète.
  2. 2
    Interpréteur.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "interpreter"?
"interpreter" is spelled I-N-T-E-R-P-R-E-T-E-R.
What does "interpreter" mean?
As a noun, "interpreter" means: Interprète.
What language does "interpreter" come from?
"interpreter" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list