intégréevsintérêtWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: intégrée is a adjective, intérêt is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“intégrée” is an adjective and “intérêt” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#8,257
“intégrée” frequency rank
#616
“intérêt” frequency rank
8873
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature intégrée intérêt
Definition Féminin singulier de intégré. Ce qui importe, ce qui convient, en quelque manière que ce soit, à l’utilité, à l’avantage d’une personne ou d’une collectivité, d’un individu ou d’une personne morale, en ce qui concerne soit leur bien physique et matériel, soit leur bien intellectuel et moral, soit leur considération et leur honneur.

Where the eye mixes intégrée and intérêt

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. intégrée runs 8 letters (VCCVCCVV) against intérêt's 7 (VCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
intégrée
7 ch
intérêt

Look-alike desk: intégrée vs intérêt

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: intégrée is \ɛ̃.te.ɡʁe\ while intérêt is \ɛ̃.te.ʁɛ\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 8873, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

intégrée is recorded at frequency rank #8,257, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɛ̃.te.ɡʁe\. intérêt is at rank #616, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃.te.ʁɛ\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 8873, this pair ranks #418,581 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of intégrée vs intérêt

Shared letters: inrté. Private to "intégrée": eg. Private to "intérêt": ê.

"intégrée" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVV  ·  "intérêt" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "intégrée" and "intérêt" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "intégrée" is an adjective and "intérêt" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "intégrée" or "intérêt" show up more?
"intérêt" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #616 in our French list, against #8,257 for "intégrée". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "intégrée" and "intérêt" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "intégrée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "intérêt" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #418,581 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "intégrée" and "intérêt" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "intégrée vs intégrera". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #418,581 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list