interviewvsinterviewésWhat's the difference?

Which to use

“interview” and “interviewés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#2,624
“interview” frequency rank
#45,679
“interviewés” frequency rank
48303
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature interview interviewés
Definition Enquête faite par un journaliste, par un publiciste auprès d’une personne en vue. Pluriel de interviewé.

Where the eye mixes interview and interviewés

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 9 letters in sequence.

9 ch
interview
11 ch
interviewés

Look-alike desk: interview vs interviewés

A purely visual mix-up. interview (\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju\) and interviewés (\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.ve\) 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 2 extra letter(s) - “interview” sits inside “interviewés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48303, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

interview is recorded at frequency rank #2,624, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju\. interviewés is at rank #45,679, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.ve\.

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 48303, this pair ranks #179,963 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of interview vs interviewés

Shared letters: einrtvw. Private to "interview": -. Private to "interviewés": .

"interview" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVVC  ·  "interviewés" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCCVVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • interviewinetrview · innterview · interivew · interrview · interveiw · intervieww · interviwe · intervview

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "interview" and "interviewés" be used interchangeably?
No. They are said differently (\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju\ versus \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.ve\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary French text, does "interview" or "interviewés" show up more?
"interview" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,624 in our French list, against #45,679 for "interviewés". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "interview" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "interviewés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #179,963 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "interview" and "interviewés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "interviewée vs interviewés". 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 #179,963 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