interrompt

/\ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁɔ̃\/ verb

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#21,362

in French word usage

Misspellings

14

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

interrompt is aFrenchverb. It means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de interrompre. Pronounced \ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁɔ̃\. Often confused with interrompu and interrompue.

Key facts for interrompt
PropertyValue
Headwordinterrompt
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁɔ̃\
Letters10
Frequency rank#21,362
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for interrompt is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #21,362 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de interrompre.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for interrompt, with forms such as "inetrrompt", "innterrompt", and "interompt". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "interrompu", "interrompue", "interrompus", 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 interrompt, spelled I-N-T-E-R-R-O-M-P-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de interrompre.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: inetrrompt,innterrompt,interompt,interormpt,interrmopt,interrommpt,interromppt,interromptt,interromtp,interropmt,intrerompt,intterrompt,itnerrompt,niterrompt

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for interrompt

Misspelling Variants of "interrompt"

inetrrompt10innterrompt11interompt9interormpt10interrmopt10interrommpt11interromppt11interromptt11
Misspelling Variants of "interrompt"

Frequency rank: #21,362 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "interrompt"?
"interrompt" is spelled I-N-T-E-R-R-O-M-P-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁɔ̃\.
What does "interrompt" mean?
As a verb, "interrompt" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de interrompre.
What words are commonly confused with "interrompt"?
"interrompt" is commonly confused with "interrompu", "interrompue", "interrompus". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "interrompt"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "interrompt" is \ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "interrompt" come from?
"interrompt" 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.