intégritévsinterditeWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: intégrité is a noun, interdite is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#6,622
“intégrité” frequency rank
#5,991
“interdite” frequency rank
12613
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature intégrité interdite
Definition État d’un tout, d’une chose qui est dans son entier. Féminin singulier de interdit.

Where the eye mixes intégrité and interdite

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence.

9 ch
intégrité
9 ch
interdite

Visual trap between intégrité and interdite

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: intégrité is \ɛ̃.te.ɡʁi.te\ while interdite is \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.dit\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 4 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 12613, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

intégrité is recorded at frequency rank #6,622, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃.te.ɡʁi.te\. interdite is at rank #5,991, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.dit\.

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 12613, this pair ranks #404,522 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of intégrité vs interdite

Shared letters: inrt. Private to "intégrité": . Private to "interdite": de.

"intégrité" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVCV  ·  "interdite" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • interditeinetrdite · innterdite · intedrite · interddite · interdiet · interditte · interdtie · interidte

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "intégrité" and "interdite" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "intégrité" is a noun and "interdite" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "intégrité" or "interdite" show up more?
"interdite" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,991 in our French list, against #6,622 for "intégrité". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "intégrité" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "interdite" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #404,522 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "intégrité" and "interdite" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "interdise vs interdite". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #404,522 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