interrogateur

\ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁɔ.ɡa.tœʁ\

/\ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁɔ.ɡa.tœʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“interrogateur” is uncommon French (frequency #62,375 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#62,375
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui interroge.

Corpus desk

Index FR-interrogateur · interrogateur · French

interrogateur · rank #62,375 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #62,375
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH interesting

Nearest frequency peer: interesting (-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 « interrogateur »

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 « interrogateur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for interrogateur
PropertyValue
Headwordinterrogateur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁɔ.ɡa.tœʁ\
Letters13
Frequency rank#62,375
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « interrogateur » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).interrogateurtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « interesting » (#62,374), « interrégional » (#62,376), « intelligibilité » (#62,373). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « interrogateur » est au #62,375. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

interrogateur is uncommon French at frequency #62,375 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁɔ.ɡa.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

interrogateur doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is interrogateur, spelled I-N-T-E-R-R-O-G-A-T-E-U-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Celui qui interroge.
  2. 2
    Celui qui interroge.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. […] ; il allait s’approcher, la main tendue et le corps penché pour la mettre à portée de son sinistre interrogateur.
  2. Interrogateur à l'occasion d’épreuves orales ou pratique.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

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 "interrogateur"?
"interrogateur" is spelled I-N-T-E-R-R-O-G-A-T-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁɔ.ɡa.tœʁ\.
What does "interrogateur" mean?
As a noun, "interrogateur" means: Celui qui interroge.
How do you pronounce "interrogateur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "interrogateur" is \ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁɔ.ɡa.tœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "interrogateur" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list