intervientvsinterviewConfusable pair

Quick tell: intervient is a verb, interview is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“intervient” is a verb and “interview” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#4,865
“intervient” frequency rank
#2,624
“interview” frequency rank
7489
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature intervient interview
Definition Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de intervenir. Enquête faite par un journaliste, par un publiciste auprès d’une personne en vue.

Where the eye mixes intervient and interview

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence.

10 ch
intervient
9 ch
interview

Visual trap between intervient and interview

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: intervient is \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vjɛ̃\ while interview is \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju\. 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 (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 7489, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

intervient is recorded at frequency rank #4,865, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vjɛ̃\. interview is at rank #2,624, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju\.

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 7489, this pair ranks #423,017 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of intervient vs interview

Shared letters: einrtv. Private to "intervient": -. Private to "interview": w.

"intervient" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVVCC  ·  "interview" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • intervientinetrvient · inntervient · interivent · interrvient · interveint · interviennt · intervientt · intervietn
  • interviewinetrview · innterview · interivew · interrview · interveiw · intervieww · interviwe · intervview

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "intervient" for "interview" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "intervient" is a verb and "interview" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "intervient" or "interview" show up more?
"interview" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,624 in our French list, against #4,865 for "intervient". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "intervient" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "interview" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #423,017 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "intervient" and "interview" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "interview vs interviewée". 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 #423,017 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