interroger

/\ɛ̃.te.ʁɔ.ʒe\/ verb

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,992

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

interroger is aFrenchverb. It means: Poser des questions à quelqu’un soit pour s’informer de quelque chose, soit pour s’assurer que la personne questionnée possède ou a acquis une certaine connaissance. Pronounced \ɛ̃.te.ʁɔ.ʒe\. It ranks #5,992 in French word frequency. Often confused with interrogez and interroge.

Key facts for interroger
PropertyValue
Headwordinterroger
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛ̃.te.ʁɔ.ʒe\
Letters10
Frequency rank#5,992
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of interroger in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for interroger is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.te.ʁɔ.ʒe\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,992 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for interroger, with forms such as "inetrroger", "innterroger", and "interoger". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "interrogez", "interroge", "interrogée", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is interroger, spelled I-N-T-E-R-R-O-G-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Poser des questions à quelqu’un soit pour s’informer de quelque chose, soit pour s’assurer que la personne questionnée possède ou a acquis une certaine connaissance.
  2. 2
    Consulter, examiner attentivement, la nature, les faits, sa conscience, l’histoire ….
  3. 3
    Pousser à la réflexion.
  4. 4
    (au sens réfléchi) S’examiner ; se consulter.
  5. 5
    Se questionner soi-même à propos de telle ou telle pensée, de tel ou tel acte pour en apprécier la valeur morale.
  6. 6
    (au sens réciproque) Se poser mutuellement des questions.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: inetrroger,innterroger,interoger,interorger,interrgoer,interroegr,interrogerr,interrogger,interrogre,intreroger,intterroger,itnerroger,niterroger

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for interroger

Misspelling Variants of "interroger"

inetrroger10innterroger11interoger9interorger10interrgoer10interroegr10interrogerr11interrogger11
Misspelling Variants of "interroger"

Frequency rank: #5,992 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "interroger"?
"interroger" is spelled I-N-T-E-R-R-O-G-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.te.ʁɔ.ʒe\.
What does "interroger" mean?
As a verb, "interroger" means: Poser des questions à quelqu’un soit pour s’informer de quelque chose, soit pour s’assurer que la personne questionnée possède ou a acquis une certaine connaissance.
What words are commonly confused with "interroger"?
"interroger" is commonly confused with "interrogez", "interroge", "interrogée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "interroger"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "interroger" is \ɛ̃.te.ʁɔ.ʒe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "interroger" come from?
"interroger" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.