interlingua
French, noun/ɛ̃.tɛʁ.lɛ̃.ɡwa/
interlingua is spelled I-N-T-E-R-L-I-N-G-U-A (11 letters) and appears about once in every 60 million words in written French, the 244,837th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Interlingua is a French feminine noun meaning “the Interlingua language” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Autre nom de la langue appelée couramment latino sine flexione”.
What does interlingua mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininethe Interlingua language
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Autre nom de la langue appelée couramment latino sine flexione. 2. (Sens actuel) Langue internationale dont le vocabulaire est emprunté essentiellement aux langues romanes.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce interlingua?
- /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.lɛ̃.ɡwa/
- /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.lin.ɡwa/
- \in.tɛʁ.lin.gwa\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is interlingua in French?
interlingua appears about once in every 60 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).