intrastate
"intrastate" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“intrastate” is uncommon English (frequency #69,962 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,962
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Within a sovereign state or country.
Corpus desk
Index EN-intrastate · intrastate · English
intrastate · rank #69,962 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,962
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH invisibly
Nearest frequency peer: invisibly (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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 “intrastate”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- integrable
integrable
30,043 corpus weight
- intermedia
intermedia
30,041 corpus weight
- intrastate
intrastate
30,039 corpus weight
- invisibly
invisibly
30,038 corpus weight
- IOU
IOU
30,036 corpus weight
- Iscariot
Iscariot
30,035 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “intrastate” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intrastate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #69,962 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “intrastate” in English
Rare enough to double-check
intrastate is uncommon English at frequency #69,962 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
intrastate has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From intra- + state. The correct English form is intrastate, spelled I-N-T-R-A-S-T-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Within a sovereign state or country.
- 2Within a state.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how intrastate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Intrastate war is now the dominant form of military conflict in international politics.
Nevertheless, within the common features discerned by Smith, it is obvious that the superficially similar prespectives of centralist v. provincialist versions of intrastate reform in fact postulated very different shaping purposes to the constitutional / institutional changes they sought .
Etymology
From intra- + state.
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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