intervalle

/\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.val\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,503

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

intervalle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Distance d’un lieu à un autre. Pronounced \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.val\. It ranks #9,503 in French word frequency. Often confused with intervalles and interpelle.

Key facts for intervalle
PropertyValue
Headwordintervalle
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.val\
Letters10
Frequency rank#9,503
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for intervalle is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.val\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,503 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 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 intervalle, with forms such as "inetrvalle", "inntervalle", and "interavlle". 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, "intervalles", "interpelle", 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 intervalle, spelled I-N-T-E-R-V-A-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Distance d’un lieu à un autre.
  2. 2
    Période de temps qui sépare un fait d’un autre.
  3. 3
    Distance qu’il y a d’une note à une autre, en allant de l’aigu au grave ou du grave à l’aigu.
  4. 4
    Domaine, plage, fourchette de valeurs d’une même grandeur, situées entre un minimum et un maximum, la différence entre ces deux valeurs étant appelée l’étendue.
  5. 5
    Distance séparant deux éléments graphiques voisins.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: inetrvalle,inntervalle,interavlle,interrvalle,intervale,intervalel,intervlale,intervvalle,intevralle,intrevalle,inttervalle,itnervalle,nitervalle

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for intervalle

Misspelling Variants of "intervalle"

inetrvalle10inntervalle11interavlle10interrvalle11intervale9intervalel10intervlale10intervvalle11
Misspelling Variants of "intervalle"

Frequency rank: #9,503 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "intervalle"?
"intervalle" is spelled I-N-T-E-R-V-A-L-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.val\.
What does "intervalle" mean?
As a noun, "intervalle" means: Distance d’un lieu à un autre.
What words are commonly confused with "intervalle"?
"intervalle" is commonly confused with "intervalles", "interpelle". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "intervalle"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "intervalle" is \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.val\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "intervalle" come from?
"intervalle" 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.