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

#21,363
“interviewer” frequency rank
#45,679
“interviewés” frequency rank
67042
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature interviewer interviewés
Definition Variante orthographique de intervieweur.. Pluriel de interviewé.

Where the eye mixes interviewer and interviewés

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

11 ch
interviewer
11 ch
interviewés

Why the eye confuses interviewer with interviewés

A purely visual mix-up. interviewer (\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.vœʁ\) 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 67042, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

interviewer is recorded at frequency rank #21,363, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.vœʁ\. 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 67042, this pair ranks #65,159 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of interviewer vs interviewés

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

"interviewer" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCCVVCVC  ·  "interviewés" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCCVVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • interviewerinetrviewer · innterviewer · interivewer · interrviewer · interveiwer · intervieewr · interviewerr · interviewre

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "interviewer" and "interviewés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.vœʁ\ versus \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.ve\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "interviewer" vs "interviewés" - which ranks higher?
"interviewer" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #21,363 in our French list, against #45,679 for "interviewés". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "interviewer" 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 #65,159 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "interviewer" 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 #65,159 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