interludes
\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.lyd\
The verdict
“interludes” is uncommon French (frequency #89,828 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,828
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de interlude.
Corpus desk
Index FR-interludes · interludes · French
interludes · rank #89,828 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,828
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH interagissant
Nearest frequency peer: interagissant (-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 « interludes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- inspirerait
inspirerait
10,176 corpus weight
- instits
instits
10,175 corpus weight
- interagissa…
interagissant
10,174 corpus weight
- interludes
interludes
10,173 corpus weight
- intrusifs
intrusifs
10,172 corpus weight
- invariance
invariance
10,171 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « interludes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | interludes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.lyd\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #89,828 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « interludes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
interludes is uncommon French at frequency #89,828 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.lyd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de interlude.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for interludes, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is interludes, spelled I-N-T-E-R-L-U-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de interlude.
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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