interspersal

1. 1.

   the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things

   “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”

   Synonymsinterspersion

   Broadercombination

Other forms of interspersal

plural

interspersals·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about interspersal

What does interspersal mean?

interspersal means "the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things".

How many syllables are in interspersal?

interspersal has 4 syllables: in-ter-sper-sal. The stress falls on "ter".

What is another word for interspersal?

Close synonyms include interspersion. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is interspersal a common word?

interspersal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.