interstices
\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.stis\
The verdict
“interstices” is uncommon French (frequency #54,041 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,041
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de interstice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-interstices · interstices · French
interstices · rank #54,041 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,041
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH interpersonne…
Nearest frequency peer: interpersonnelles (-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 « interstices »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- interlude
interlude
45,962 corpus weight
- interperson…
interpersonnelles
45,961 corpus weight
- interstices
interstices
45,960 corpus weight
- intitulées
intitulées
45,959 corpus weight
- intrusif
intrusif
45,958 corpus weight
- invalidée
invalidée
45,957 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « interstices » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | interstices |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.stis\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #54,041 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « interstices » en français
Rare enough to double-check
interstices is uncommon French at frequency #54,041 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.stis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de interstice.".
No misspelling variants are generated for interstices in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is interstices, spelled I-N-T-E-R-S-T-I-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de interstice.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how interstices appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cependant, face à l’ampleur de ces projets, Paris-centre n’est aujourd’hui que la fraction d’un espace urbanisé dans la discontinuité, laissant dans ses franges, ici et là, des interstices vacants, des espaces en attente, inorganisés ou « carrefourisés », « rond-pointisés ».
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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