intercultural
adjective
intercultural is an adjective meaning “of, relating to, or between different cultures” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-N-T-E-R-C-U-L-T-U-R-A-L and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does intercultural mean?
adjective
- 1
of, relating to, or between different cultures
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce intercultural?
Intercultural has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of intercultural
- more intercultural comparative
- most intercultural superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is intercultural?
Intercultural appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,063rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Intercultural in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense between different cultures:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | interculturel |
| German | interkulturell |
| Portuguese | intercultural |
| Spanish | intercultural |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does intercultural come from?
From inter- + cultural.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).