Which to use
“interné” and “internés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #31,086
- “interné” frequency rank
- #38,864
- “internés” frequency rank
- 69950
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | interné | internés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Contraint à résider dans une certaine localité sans permission d’en sortir. | Masculin pluriel de interné. |
Same sound, different letters: interné vs internés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - interné / internés
This is the hard kind. interné and internés are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ne\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “interné” sits inside “internés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 69950, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
interné is recorded at frequency rank #31,086, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ne\. internés is at rank #38,864, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ne\.
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 69950, this pair ranks #53,206 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of interné vs internés
Shared letters: einrté. Private to "interné": -. Private to "internés": s.
"interné" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCCV · "internés" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "interné" and "internés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "interné" vs "internés" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "interné" / "internés". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "interné" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "internés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #53,206 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "interné" and "internés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "interner vs internés". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #53,206 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.