interlude
\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.lyd\
The verdict
“interlude” is uncommon French (frequency #54,039 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,039
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pièce de poésie ou de musique écrite ou exécutée entre des ouvrages plus importants.
Corpus desk
Index FR-interlude · interlude · French
interlude · rank #54,039 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,039
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH interpersonne…
Nearest frequency peer: interpersonnelles (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « interlude »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- insistes
insistes
45,965 corpus weight
- insultait
insultait
45,964 corpus weight
- interlude
interlude
45,962 corpus weight
- interperson…
interpersonnelles
45,961 corpus weight
- interstices
interstices
45,960 corpus weight
- intitulées
intitulées
45,959 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « interlude » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | interlude |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.lyd\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,039 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « interlude » en français
Rare enough to double-check
interlude is uncommon French at frequency #54,039 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.lyd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for interlude, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is interlude, spelled I-N-T-E-R-L-U-D-E.
Definition
- 1Pièce de poésie ou de musique écrite ou exécutée entre des ouvrages plus importants.
- 2Court programme inséré entre deux émissions plus importantes, ou lors d'une panne.
- 3Période transitoire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how interlude appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le programme comprendra une conférence et des interludes.
Ce que nous appelons la paix pourrait n’être finalement qu’un interlude entre deux guerres.
Synonyms
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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