Which to use
“intervention” and “interventions” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,664
- “intervention” frequency rank
- #5,146
- “interventions” frequency rank
- 6810
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | intervention | interventions |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action d’intervenir. | Pluriel de intervention. |
Same sound, different letters: intervention vs interventions
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 12 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - intervention and interventions
This is the hard kind. intervention and interventions are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɑ̃.sjɔ̃\) and both work as anoun. 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) - “intervention” sits inside “interventions”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 6810, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
intervention is recorded at frequency rank #1,664, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɑ̃.sjɔ̃\. interventions is at rank #5,146, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɑ̃.sjɔ̃\.
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 6810, this pair ranks #425,157 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of intervention vs interventions
Shared letters: einortv. Private to "intervention": -. Private to "interventions": s.
"intervention" · 12 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCVVC · "interventions" · 13 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- intervention ← inetrvention · inntervention · interevntion · interrvention · interveniton · intervenntion · interventino · interventionn
- interventions ← inetrventions · innterventions · interevntions · interrventions · intervenitons · intervenntions · interventinos · interventionns
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "intervention" and "interventions" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "intervention" or "interventions"?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "intervention" / "interventions". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "intervention" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "interventions" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #425,157 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "intervention" and "interventions" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "intersections vs interventions". 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 #425,157 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.