interrogateur
\ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁɔ.ɡa.tœʁ\
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
- intellectua…
intellectualisme
37,629 corpus weight
- intelligibi…
intelligibilité
37,628 corpus weight
- interesting
interesting
37,627 corpus weight
- interrogate…
interrogateur
37,626 corpus weight
- interrégion…
interrégional
37,625 corpus weight
- intrusive
intrusive
37,624 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « interrogateur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | interrogateur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁɔ.ɡa.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #62,375 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « interrogateur » en français
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
- 1Celui qui interroge.
- 2Celui qui interroge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how interrogateur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ; il allait s’approcher, la main tendue et le corps penché pour la mettre à portée de son sinistre interrogateur.
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.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).