interposed
/ˌɪn.təˈpəʊzd/
"interposed" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“interposed” is uncommon English (frequency #77,804 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,804
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of interpose
Corpus desk
Index EN-interposed · interposed · English
interposed · rank #77,804 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,804
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH interdimensio…
Nearest frequency peer: interdimensional (-1 rank slots)
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Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “interposed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- ingroup
ingroup
22,203 corpus weight
- inimical
inimical
22,202 corpus weight
- interdepart…
interdepartmental
22,199 corpus weight
- interdimens…
interdimensional
22,198 corpus weight
- interposed
interposed
22,197 corpus weight
- iridescence
iridescence
22,195 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “interposed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | interposed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˌɪn.təˈpəʊzd/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,804 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “interposed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
interposed is uncommon English at frequency #77,804 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˌɪn.təˈpəʊzd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of interpose".
interposed doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is interposed, spelled I-N-T-E-R-P-O-S-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of interpose
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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