inst

noun

inst is a noun meaning “Alternative form of inst” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-N-S-T, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of inst is insts.

What does inst mean?

noun

1
Alternative form of inst..

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of inst

insts plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is inst?

Inst appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 38,416th most frequent word form in the list.

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rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).