instabile

Name: instabile, German Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
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[ˈɪnʃtabiːlə]

/[ˈɪnʃtabiːlə]/ adj

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed May 6, 2026

The verdict

“instabile” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #48,251. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#48,251
frequency rank, German: 17,725
“I” headwords: 13
tracked misspellings: 2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs instabil

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

instabile vs instabilen

90% similar

instabile vs instabil

89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for instabile
Property	Value
Headword	instabile
Language	German
Part of speech	Adjective
IPA	[ˈɪnʃtabiːlə]
Letters	9
Frequency rank	#48,251
Misspellings tracked	13
Confusable pairs	2
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “instabile” sits in German frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). instabile lands here:

#48,251

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around instabile (IPA [ˈɪnʃtabiːlə]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #48,251 among 17,725 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 9 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for instabile, with forms such as "innstabile", "insatbile", and "insstabile". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "instabilen", "instabil", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is instabile, spelled I-N-S-T-A-B-I-L-E.

Definition

1
Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs instabil
2
Akkusativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs instabil
3
Nominativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs instabil
4
Akkusativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs instabil
5
Nominativ Singular alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs instabil
6
Akkusativ Singular Femininum der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs instabil
7
Akkusativ Singular Neutrum der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs instabil
8
Nominativ Singular Femininum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs instabil
9
Akkusativ Singular Femininum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs instabil

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

innstabile
insatbile
insstabile
instabbile
instabiel
instabille
instablie
instaible
instbaile
insttabile
intsabile
isntabile
nistabile

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of instabile - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

Edit distance from "instabile"

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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "instabile"?

"instabile" is spelled I-N-S-T-A-B-I-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈɪnʃtabiːlə].

What does "instabile" mean?

As an adjective, "instabile" means: Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs instabil

What words are commonly confused with "instabile"?

"instabile" is commonly confused with "instabilen", "instabil". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "instabile"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "instabile" is [ˈɪnʃtabiːlə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "instabile" come from?

"instabile" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.

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Using “instabile”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

The one correct German spelling is I-N-S-T-A-B-I-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Say it as [ˈɪnʃtabiːlə] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
Don't mix it up with “instabilen” - see the side-by-side comparison. instabile vs instabilen
Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words

Same frequency band

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.