interstice

\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.stis\

/\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.stis\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « interstice » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for interstice
PropertyValue
Headwordinterstice
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.stis\
Letters10
Frequency rank#81,269
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « interstice » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).intersticetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « interpreter » (#81,268), « intensifiant » (#81,267), « integre » (#81,266). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « interstice » est au #81,269. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Très petit intervalle d’espace laissé entre les parties d’un ensemble, d’un assemblage, d’un matériau, d’une matière.
  2. 2
    Intervalle de temps.
  3. 3
    En droit canonique, l’intervalle de temps que l’Église fait observer entre la réception de deux ordres sacrés.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how interstice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Un granit roussâtre, friable, connu dans le pays sous le nom de pierre pourrie, remplit ces divers interstices.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "interstice"?
"interstice" is spelled I-N-T-E-R-S-T-I-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.stis\.
What does "interstice" mean?
As a noun, "interstice" means: Très petit intervalle d’espace laissé entre les parties d’un ensemble, d’un assemblage, d’un matériau, d’une matière.
How do you pronounce "interstice"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "interstice" is \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.stis\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "interstice" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "interstice", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list