How to spell interstate

hear itin·ter·state/,ɪntər'steɪt/nounPrefixes and work

What it means: A major highway that connects different states.

In a sentence: We drove on the interstate to visit Grandma.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as innerstate or interstete.

Same family: interstate highway, state, statewide, intrastate, United States. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Interstate” comes from the Latin prefix “inter-” meaning “between,” and “state,” so it literally means “between states.” The modern sense grew with the development of the U.S. Interstate Highway System, officially started in 1956 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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