interrogation
\ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁɔ.ɡa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“interrogation” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,179. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,179
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Question, action d’interroger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-interrogation · interrogation · French
interrogation · rank #12,179 · 17 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,179
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH installées
Nearest frequency peer: installées (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « interrogation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- indemnisati…
indemnisation
87,825 corpus weight
- induit
induit
87,824 corpus weight
- installées
installées
87,823 corpus weight
- interrogati…
interrogation
87,822 corpus weight
- interrogato…
interrogatoire
87,821 corpus weight
- iso
iso
87,820 corpus weight
What this shows « interrogation » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | interrogation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁɔ.ɡa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #12,179 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « interrogation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around interrogation (IPA \ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁɔ.ɡa.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,179 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for interrogation, with forms such as "inetrrogation", "innterrogation", and "interogation". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "interrogations", "interpolation", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is interrogation, spelled I-N-T-E-R-R-O-G-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Question, action d’interroger.
- 2Examen permettant de vérifier la connaissance ou la compréhension qu’a un élève ou un étudiant d’un domaine qui lui a été enseigné.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how interrogation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a un tour de Fiction, au moyen duquel la penſée ne doit pas être entendue littéralement comme elle eſt énoncée, mais qui laiſſe apercevoir le véritable point de vûe en le rendant ſeulement plus ſenſible & plus intéreſſant par la Fiction même. De là naissent l’Hyperbole, la Litote, l’Interrogation, la Dubitation, la Prétérition, la Réticence, l’Interr…
Lui sentait dans les yeux de la jeune fille une imploration muette, l’interrogation de la biche captive et soumise, ne souhaitant que savoir ce qu’on attend d’elle.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inetrrogation
- innterrogation
- interogation
- interorgation
- interrgoation
- interroagtion
- interrogaiton
- interrogatino
- interrogationn
- interrogatoin
- interrogattion
- interroggation
- interrogtaion
- intrerogation
- intterrogation
- itnerrogation
- niterrogation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of interrogation - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).