interro
\ɛ̃.te.ʁo\
The verdict
“interro” is uncommon French (frequency #51,549 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,549
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Interrogation écrite, contrôle scolaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-interro · interro · French
interro · rank #51,549 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,549
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH interrompent
Nearest frequency peer: interrompent (+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 « interro »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- insider
insider
48,455 corpus weight
- insultante
insultante
48,454 corpus weight
- interro
interro
48,452 corpus weight
- interrompent
interrompent
48,451 corpus weight
- inventez
inventez
48,450 corpus weight
- invraisembl…
invraisemblables
48,449 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « interro » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | interro |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.te.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,549 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « interro » en français
Rare enough to double-check
interro is uncommon French at frequency #51,549 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.te.ʁo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Interrogation écrite, contrôle scolaire.".
No misspelling variants are generated for interro in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is interro, spelled I-N-T-E-R-R-O.
Definition
- 1Interrogation écrite, contrôle scolaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how interro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Zut ! L’interro de maths !
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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