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interior

in·ter·i·or/ɪnˈtɪ.ɹi.ɚ/adjective, noun

interior is spelled I-N-T-E-R-I-O-R: 8 letters and 4 syllables (in·ter·i·or). It appears 35 times per million words in written English, the 2,725th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, interior means “Within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in interior?

Letters8: I-N-T-E-R-I-O-R
Syllables4: in·ter·i·or
In writing35 times per million words; the 2,725th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is interior?

Interior appears 35 times per million words in written English, the 2,725th 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).

How do you pronounce interior?

  • UK /ɪnˈtɪə.ɹɪ.ə/
  • US /ɪnˈtɪ.ɹi.ɚ/

Interior has 4 syllables, split in·ter·i·or in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-interior.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with interior?

5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as interior from its last stressed vowel (/ɪɹiəɹ/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of interior

  • interiour
  • interiors plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does interior mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner.

    the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball

  2. 2

    Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland.

    the interior parts of a region or country

noun

  1. 1

    The inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure.

    The gardens are just divine, but the interior of the house are even more splendid.

  2. 2

    The inside regions of a country, continent, etc., distanced from the borders or coasts.

    Near-synonyms: backcountry, upcountry, hinterland

  3. 3

    The set of all interior points of a set.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate interior?

Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of interior: int, int..

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Interior in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchintérieur (having to do with the inner part of something)
Germaninner (having to do with the inner part of something), Interieur, Inneres, Innenraum (the inside of an enclosed structure), offener Kern (the set of all interior points)
Portugueseinterior (having to do with the inner part of something)
Spanishinterior (having to do with the inner part of something), interiano, interiorano (having to do with the inland parts of a country)

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 interior come from?

From Latin interior (“inner, interior”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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