intervention
\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɑ̃.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“intervention” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,664. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,664
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’intervenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intervention · intervention · French
intervention · rank #1,664 · 18 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,664
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH institut
Nearest frequency peer: institut (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « intervention »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- exercice
exercice
98,340 corpus weight
- françaises
françaises
98,339 corpus weight
- institut
institut
98,338 corpus weight
- intervention
intervention
98,337 corpus weight
- locaux
locaux
98,336 corpus weight
- logique
logique
98,335 corpus weight
What this shows « intervention » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intervention |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɑ̃.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #1,664 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « intervention »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around intervention (IPA \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɑ̃.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,664 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for intervention, with forms such as "inetrvention", "inntervention", and "interevntion". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "interventions", "intersection", "interception", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is intervention, spelled I-N-T-E-R-V-E-N-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action d’intervenir.
- 2Intervention chirurgicale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how intervention appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voici un homme qui, par son délit ou son crime, a motivé l’intervention de la loi ; mais la Justice n'a devant elle qu'un irresponsable, qu'un aliéné, et elle désarme.
Or il est à la veille, grâce à de puissantes interventions, d'affermer complétement la publicité de Lutèce-Journal.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inetrvention
- inntervention
- interevntion
- interrvention
- interveniton
- intervenntion
- interventino
- interventionn
- interventoin
- interventtion
- intervetnion
- intervnetion
- intervvention
- intevrention
- intrevention
- inttervention
- itnervention
- nitervention
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of intervention - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).