intervertir
\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.tiʁ\
The verdict
“intervertir” is uncommon French (frequency #94,924 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,924
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Renverser en dérangeant l’ordre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intervertir · intervertir · French
intervertir · rank #94,924 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,924
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH interrégional…
Nearest frequency peer: interrégionales (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « intervertir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- interdépart…
interdépartemental
5,080 corpus weight
- interrogate…
interrogateurs
5,079 corpus weight
- interrégion…
interrégionales
5,078 corpus weight
- intervertir
intervertir
5,077 corpus weight
- intimant
intimant
5,076 corpus weight
- intoxiquée
intoxiquée
5,075 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « intervertir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intervertir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.tiʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #94,924 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « intervertir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
intervertir is uncommon French at frequency #94,924 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɛʁ.tiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Renverser en dérangeant l’ordre.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for intervertir, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is intervertir, spelled I-N-T-E-R-V-E-R-T-I-R.
Definition
- 1Renverser en dérangeant l’ordre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how intervertir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai, à la fois, besoin d’être pris en charge et besoin de prendre en charge. Un jour, peut-être, nos positions s’intervertiront-elles. Nous en sommes déjà à la ligne de partage des eaux, et quand nous nous étreignons, je ne sais plus exactement si je l’enserre ou si je me blottis.
Pour qu’Uthacalthing pût parvenir à ses fins – jouer aux envahisseurs un mauvais tour de son cru – il lui faudrait effacer quelques mégafichiers spécifiques et en intervertir quelques autres, un acte que seul le chaos actuel permettrait d’accomplir de façon discrète.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).