interruption

/\ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁyp.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,566

in French word usage

Misspellings

16

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

interruption is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action d’interrompre ou état de ce qui est interrompu. Pronounced \ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁyp.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #8,566 in French word frequency. Often confused with interruptions and interception.

Key facts for interruption
PropertyValue
Headwordinterruption
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁyp.sjɔ̃\
Letters12
Frequency rank#8,566
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for interruption is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁyp.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,566 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for interruption, with forms such as "inetrruption", "innterruption", and "interrpution". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "interruptions", "interception", 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 interruption, spelled I-N-T-E-R-R-U-P-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’interrompre ou état de ce qui est interrompu.
  2. 2
    Action d’interrompre une personne qui parle.
  3. 3
    Évènement survenant dans un microprocesseur, pouvant stopper l'exécution de processus.
  4. 4
    Action d’interrompre le fil de son discours, pour se livrer à d’autres idées.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: inetrruption,innterruption,interrpution,interrupiton,interrupption,interruptino,interruptionn,interruptoin,interrupttion,interrutpion,interuption,interurption,intreruption,intterruption,itnerruption,niterruption

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for interruption

Misspelling Variants of "interruption"

inetrruption12innterruption13interrpution12interrupiton12interrupption13interruptino12interruptionn13interruptoin12
Misspelling Variants of "interruption"

Frequency rank: #8,566 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "interruption"?
"interruption" is spelled I-N-T-E-R-R-U-P-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁyp.sjɔ̃\.
What does "interruption" mean?
As a noun, "interruption" means: Action d’interrompre ou état de ce qui est interrompu.
What words are commonly confused with "interruption"?
"interruption" is commonly confused with "interruptions", "interception". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "interruption"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "interruption" is \ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁyp.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "interruption" come from?
"interruption" 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.