interposition
\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pɔ.zi.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“interposition” is uncommon French (frequency #74,102 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,102
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État ou situation d’un corps interposé entre deux autres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-interposition · interposition · French
interposition · rank #74,102 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,102
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH interpelé
Nearest frequency peer: interpelé (-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 « interposition »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- intercultur…
interculturelles
25,902 corpus weight
- interjeter
interjeter
25,901 corpus weight
- interpelé
interpelé
25,900 corpus weight
- interpositi…
interposition
25,899 corpus weight
- intrication
intrication
25,897 corpus weight
- inutilisées
inutilisées
25,896 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « interposition » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | interposition |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pɔ.zi.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #74,102 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « interposition » en français
Rare enough to double-check
interposition is uncommon French at frequency #74,102 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pɔ.zi.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for interposition, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is interposition, spelled I-N-T-E-R-P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1État ou situation d’un corps interposé entre deux autres.
- 2Intervention, surtout en parlant d’une autorité supérieure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how interposition appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une éclipse de soleil et de lune peut résulter aussi bien d’une extinction - comme auprès de nous l’on voit cela arriver - qu’également d’une interposition d’autres corps, soit la terre, soit le ciel, ou un autre du même type ; […].
L’interposition d’un nuage empêche que les rayons du soleil ne viennent jusqu’à nous.
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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