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interlingua

noun

interlingua is spelled I-N-T-E-R-L-I-N-G-U-A: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 37 million words in written English, the 187,122nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, interlingua means “an interlanguage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of interlingua is interlinguas.

How many letters and syllables are in interlingua?

Letters11: I-N-T-E-R-L-I-N-G-U-A
In writingabout once in every 37 million words; the 187,122nd 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 interlingua?

Interlingua appears about once in every 37 million words in written English, the 187,122nd 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 interlingua

  • interlinguas plural

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

What does interlingua mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    an interlanguage

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

Where does interlingua come from?

From inter- + Latin lingua (“language”).

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

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