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interlinear

adjective, noun

interlinear is spelled I-N-T-E-R-L-I-N-E-A-R: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 121,279th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, interlinear means “inserted between the lines of a text” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in interlinear?

Letters11: I-N-T-E-R-L-I-N-E-A-R
In writingabout once in every 16 million words; the 121,279th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is interlinear?

Interlinear appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 121,279th 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).

Forms of interlinear

  • interlinears plural

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

What does interlinear mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    inserted between the lines of a text

  2. 2

    having alternate lines of text in different languages

noun

  1. 1

    A translated text having alternate lines in different languages.

    I've been reading a lot of graded readers and interlinears lately.

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

Interlinear in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchinterlinéaire (interlinear), glose interlinéaire (interlinear (translation))
Germaninterlinear, Interlinear-, zwischenzeilig (interlinear), Interlinearübersetzung, Interlineares (interlinear (translation))

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 interlinear come from?

From inter- + linear.

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

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