Which to use
“interview” and “interviews” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #2,624
- “interview” frequency rank
- #10,340
- “interviews” frequency rank
- 12964
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | interview | interviews |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Enquête faite par un journaliste, par un publiciste auprès d’une personne en vue. | Pluriel de interview. |
Same sound, different letters: interview vs interviews
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - interview / interviews
This is the hard kind. interview and interviews are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju\) 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) - “interview” sits inside “interviews”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 12964, 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\. interviews is at rank #10,340, 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 12964, this pair ranks #402,990 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of interview vs interviews
Shared letters: einrtvw. Private to "interview": -. Private to "interviews": s.
"interview" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVVC · "interviews" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- interview ← inetrview · innterview · interivew · interrview · interveiw · intervieww · interviwe · intervview
- interviews ← inetrviews · innterviews · interivews · interrviews · interveiws · interviesw · interviewss · interviewws
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "interview" and "interviews" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "interview" vs "interviews" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
"interview" and "interviews" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "interview" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "interviews" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #402,990 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "interview" and "interviews" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "interviewée vs interviews". 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 #402,990 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.