Which to use
“interrompt” and “interrompus” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #21,362
- “interrompt” frequency rank
- #31,091
- “interrompus” frequency rank
- 52453
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | interrompt | interrompus |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de interrompre. | Participe passé masculin pluriel de interrompre. |
Where the eye mixes interrompt and interrompus
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 9 letters in sequence.
Why the eye confuses interrompt with interrompus
A purely visual mix-up. interrompt (\ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁɔ̃\) and interrompus (\ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁɔ̃.py\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 52453, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
interrompt is recorded at frequency rank #21,362, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁɔ̃\. interrompus is at rank #31,091, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁɔ̃.py\.
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 52453, this pair ranks #147,609 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of interrompt vs interrompus
Shared letters: eimnoprt. Private to "interrompt": -. Private to "interrompus": su.
"interrompt" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCC · "interrompus" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- interrompt ← inetrrompt · innterrompt · interompt · interormpt · interrmopt · interrommpt · interromppt · interromptt
- interrompus ← inetrrompus · innterrompus · interompus · interormpus · interrmopus · interrommpus · interromppus · interrompsu
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "interrompt" and "interrompus" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "interrompt" vs "interrompus" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "interrompt" and "interrompus" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "interrompt" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "interrompus" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #147,609 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "interrompt" and "interrompus" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "interrompues vs interrompus". 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 #147,609 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.