interstice
\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.stis\
The verdict
“interstice” is uncommon French (frequency #81,269 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,269
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Très petit intervalle d’espace laissé entre les parties d’un ensemble, d’un assemblage, d’un matériau, d’une matière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-interstice · interstice · French
interstice · rank #81,269 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,269
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH interpreter
Nearest frequency peer: interpreter (-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 « interstice »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- inspires
inspires
18,736 corpus weight
- integre
integre
18,735 corpus weight
- intensifiant
intensifiant
18,734 corpus weight
- interpreter
interpreter
18,733 corpus weight
- interstice
interstice
18,732 corpus weight
- isomorphisme
isomorphisme
18,729 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « interstice » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | interstice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.stis\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #81,269 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « interstice » en français
Rare enough to double-check
interstice is uncommon French at frequency #81,269 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.stis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for interstice in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is interstice, spelled I-N-T-E-R-S-T-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Très petit intervalle d’espace laissé entre les parties d’un ensemble, d’un assemblage, d’un matériau, d’une matière.
- 2Intervalle de temps.
- 3En droit canonique, l’intervalle de temps que l’Église fait observer entre la réception de deux ordres sacrés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how interstice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un granit roussâtre, friable, connu dans le pays sous le nom de pierre pourrie, remplit ces divers interstices.
Enfin, je vis les premiers rayons du jour se glisser dans ma chambre à travers les interstices des jalousies ; […]
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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