interniste
\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.nist\
The verdict
“interniste” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Médecin spécialiste de médecine interne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-interniste · interniste · French
interniste · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | interniste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.nist\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
interniste is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.nist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Médecin spécialiste de médecine interne.".
No misspelling variants are generated for interniste in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is interniste, spelled I-N-T-E-R-N-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Médecin spécialiste de médecine interne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how interniste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Du Dʳ House, tout le monde connaît le cynisme et l’humour grinçant. Mais on sait moins qu’il exerce une spécialité existant bel et bien, la médecine interne. Hugh Laurie est interniste (diagnostician en anglais), à ne pas confondre avec l’interne, étudiant en médecine de troisième cycle. En France, il existe plus de 2000 internistes, dont la plupart trava…
Les internistes sont aussi les spécialistes de maladies rares ou dites « maladies orphelines » pouvant toucher plusieurs organes, telles que lupus, sclérodermie, Gougerot-Sjögren, polymyosite, vascularites, mastocytoses, histocytose, amylose, drépanocytose... Suivant les services, les internistes peuvent aussi prendre en charge des patients atteints de ca…
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.