interrompant
\ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁɔ̃.pɑ̃\
The verdict
“interrompant” is uncommon French (frequency #55,376 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,376
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de interrompre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-interrompant · interrompant · French
interrompant · rank #55,376 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,376
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH interreligieux
Nearest frequency peer: interreligieux (-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 « interrompant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- interdirait
interdirait
44,628 corpus weight
- intermitten…
intermittentes
44,627 corpus weight
- interreligi…
interreligieux
44,626 corpus weight
- interrompant
interrompant
44,625 corpus weight
- ioniques
ioniques
44,624 corpus weight
- irascible
irascible
44,623 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « interrompant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | interrompant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁɔ̃.pɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #55,376 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « interrompant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
interrompant is uncommon French at frequency #55,376 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁɔ̃.pɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de interrompre.".
interrompant has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is interrompant, spelled I-N-T-E-R-R-O-M-P-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de interrompre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how interrompant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un monsieur et une dame passent devant moi, interrompant leur conversation pour que je ne les entende pas, comme s’ils me refusaient l’aumône de ce qu’ils pensent.
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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