interscholastic
"interscholastic" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“interscholastic” is uncommon English (frequency #76,885 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,885
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Involving two or more schools.
Corpus desk
Index EN-interscholastic · interscholastic · English
interscholastic · rank #76,885 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,885
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH intestate
Nearest frequency peer: intestate (+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 “interscholastic”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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23,119 corpus weight
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intercostal
23,118 corpus weight
- interschola…
interscholastic
23,116 corpus weight
- intestate
intestate
23,115 corpus weight
- intravascul…
intravascular
23,114 corpus weight
- intron
intron
23,113 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “interscholastic” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | interscholastic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #76,885 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “interscholastic” in English
Rare enough to double-check
interscholastic is uncommon English at frequency #76,885 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Involving two or more schools.".
Zero misspellings are on record for interscholastic in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From inter- + scholastic. The correct English form is interscholastic, spelled I-N-T-E-R-S-C-H-O-L-A-S-T-I-C.
Definition
- 1Involving two or more schools.
Etymology
From inter- + scholastic.
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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