interlanguage
/ɪnˈtɜɹˈlæŋɡwɪd͡ʒ/noun
interlanguage is spelled I-N-T-E-R-L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E: 13 letters. It appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, interlanguage means “A language generated by a student of a foreign language that incorporates aspects of their native language and the target language” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of interlanguage is interlanguages.
How many letters and syllables are in interlanguage?
| Letters | 13: I-N-T-E-R-L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 25 million words; the 150,355th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 interlanguage?
Interlanguage appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th 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 interlanguage?
- US /ɪnˈtɜɹˈlæŋɡwɪd͡ʒ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-interlanguage.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with interlanguage?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as interlanguage from its last stressed vowel (/æŋɡwɪdʒ/):
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 interlanguage
- interlanguages plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does interlanguage mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A language generated by a student of a foreign language that incorporates aspects of their native language and the target language.
Trasyanka and Surzhyk are interlanguages: a Belarusian–Russian and a Ukrainian–Russian mixed language.
- 2
A lingua franca, a common language used by speakers of different languages
Latin used to be the European interlanguage. Currently English widely serves this purpose.
- 3
A pidgin or creole
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Interlanguage in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense mixed language:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | interlangue |
| German | Interimssprache, Lernersprache, Lernervarietät, Zwischensprache |
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 interlanguage come from?
From inter- + language. In the language acquisition sense introduced by Larry Selinker in 1972.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).