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interlining

noun, verb

interlining is spelled I-N-T-E-R-L-I-N-I-N-G: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, interlining means “A cloth lining between the outer and inner layers of a garment” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of interlining is interlinings.

How many letters and syllables are in interlining?

Letters11: I-N-T-E-R-L-I-N-I-N-G
In writingabout once in every 34 million words; the 178,202nd 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 interlining?

Interlining appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd 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 interlining

  • interlinings plural

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

What does interlining mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A cloth lining between the outer and inner layers of a garment.

  2. 2

    Correction or alteration by writing between the lines; interlineation.

  3. 3

    The scheduling of vehicles to operate more than one route, or the selling of tickets for a trip across multiple carriers

  4. 4

    The sharing of a segment of track between two rail lines.

verb

  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of interline (a form of interline)

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

Where does interlining come from?

From inter- + lining.

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

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