intervenir
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,687
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
intervenir is aFrenchverb. It means: Prendre part à une chose, entrer dans une affaire par quelque intérêt, par quelque obligation, par quelque nécessité que ce soit. Pronounced \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.və.niʁ\. It ranks #3,687 in French word frequency. Often confused with intervenu and intervenue.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intervenir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.və.niʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #3,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for intervenir is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.və.niʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,687 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 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for intervenir, with forms such as "inetrvenir", "inntervenir", and "interevnir". 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, "intervenu", "intervenue", "intervenus", 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 intervenir, spelled I-N-T-E-R-V-E-N-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Prendre part à une chose, entrer dans une affaire par quelque intérêt, par quelque obligation, par quelque nécessité que ce soit.
- 2Demander d’être reçu dans une procédure.
- 3Se rendre médiateur dans une affaire.
- 4Survenir au milieu de, surtout dans un procès, dans une affaire, en parlant des choses.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: inetrvenir,inntervenir,interevnir,interrvenir,interveinr,intervenirr,intervennir,intervenri,intervneir,intervvenir,intevrenir,intrevenir,inttervenir,itnervenir,nitervenir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for intervenir
Misspelling Variants of "intervenir"
Frequency rank: #3,687 in French
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