interdisciplinary
"interdisciplinary" is a 17-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“interdisciplinary” has 27 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #17,390. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,390
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
- 27
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of or pertaining to multiple distinct academic disciplines or fields of study.
Corpus desk
Index EN-interdisciplinary · interdisciplinary · English
interdisciplinary · rank #17,390 · 27 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,390
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 27 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH integer
Nearest frequency peer: integer (-1 rank slots)
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Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “interdisciplinary”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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82,611 corpus weight
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82,610 corpus weight
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What this shows Bars show where “interdisciplinary” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | interdisciplinary |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 17 |
| Frequency rank | #17,390 |
| Misspellings tracked | 27 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “interdisciplinary” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 27 spelling variants around interdisciplinary, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,390 among 2,140 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 27 likely wrong-spelling variants for interdisciplinary, with forms such as "inetrdisciplinary", "innterdisciplinary", and "intedrisciplinary". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From inter- + disciplinary. The correct English form is interdisciplinary, spelled I-N-T-E-R-D-I-S-C-I-P-L-I-N-A-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Of or pertaining to multiple distinct academic disciplines or fields of study.
- 2Of or pertaining to a linkage between multiple distinct academic disciplines or fields of study.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how interdisciplinary appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near-synonyms: crossdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, pluridisciplinary, transdisciplinary
This journal is interdisciplinary: it has articles on everything from biology to electrical engineering.
Etymology
From inter- + disciplinary.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inetrdisciplinary
- innterdisciplinary
- intedrisciplinary
- interddisciplinary
- interdicsiplinary
- interdiscciplinary
- interdiscilpinary
- interdiscipilnary
- interdisciplianry
- interdisciplinarry
- interdisciplinaryy
- interdisciplinayr
- interdisciplinnary
- interdisciplinray
- interdiscipllinary
- interdisciplniary
- interdiscipplinary
- interdiscpilinary
- interdisicplinary
- interdissciplinary
- interdsiciplinary
- interidsciplinary
- interrdisciplinary
- intredisciplinary
- intterdisciplinary
- itnerdisciplinary
- niterdisciplinary
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of interdisciplinary - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 17 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (27 here; floor ≥5).
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.