interphase
\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.faz\
The verdict
“interphase” 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 May 6, 2026) - Temps passé entre deux mitoses pendant lequel le volume cellulaire s’accroit, la cellule transcrit ses gènes et les chromosomes sont dupliqués.
Corpus desk
Index FR-interphase · interphase · French
interphase · 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 | interphase |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.faz\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “interphase” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
interphase is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.faz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Temps passé entre deux mitoses pendant lequel le volume cellulaire s’accroit, la cellule transcrit ses gènes et les chromosomes sont dupliqués.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for interphase, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 interphase, spelled I-N-T-E-R-P-H-A-S-E.
Definition
- 1Temps passé entre deux mitoses pendant lequel le volume cellulaire s’accroit, la cellule transcrit ses gènes et les chromosomes sont dupliqués.
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