national interest
"national-interest" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“national interest” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An economic, military, or cultural goal of a country.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | national interest |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “national interest” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
national interest is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An economic, military, or cultural goal of a country.".
Zero misspellings are on record for national interest in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is national interest, spelled N-A-T-I-O-N-A-L- -I-N-T-E-R-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1An economic, military, or cultural goal of a country.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “national interest”
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- The one correct English spelling is N-A-T-I-O-N-A-L- -I-N-T-E-R-E-S-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.