interprovincial
\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pʁɔ.vɛ̃.sjal\
The verdict
“interprovincial” is uncommon French (frequency #93,910 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,910
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à plusieurs provinces.
Corpus desk
Index FR-interprovincial · interprovincial · French
interprovincial · rank #93,910 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,910
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH international…
Nearest frequency peer: internationaliser (-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 « interprovincial »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- interconnec…
interconnectées
6,094 corpus weight
- intergalact…
intergalactiques
6,093 corpus weight
- internation…
internationaliser
6,092 corpus weight
- interprovin…
interprovincial
6,091 corpus weight
- interromps
interromps
6,090 corpus weight
- intitulant
intitulant
6,089 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « interprovincial » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | interprovincial |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pʁɔ.vɛ̃.sjal\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #93,910 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « interprovincial » en français
Rare enough to double-check
interprovincial is uncommon French at frequency #93,910 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pʁɔ.vɛ̃.sjal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à plusieurs provinces.".
interprovincial has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is interprovincial, spelled I-N-T-E-R-P-R-O-V-I-N-C-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif à plusieurs provinces.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how interprovincial appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Car les citoyens d'Ottawa-Gatineau ont peut-être l'impression d'habiter une seule et même ville, mais le fait de se retrouver à cheval sur une frontière interprovinciale, en même temps que sous l'autorité fédérale de la CCN, crée bien des tracasseries.
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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