instate
/ɪnˈsteɪt/
"instate" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“instate” is uncommon English (frequency #86,384 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,384
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To install (someone) in office; to establish.
Corpus desk
Index EN-instate · instate · English
instate · rank #86,384 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,384
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH instore
Nearest frequency peer: instore (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “instate”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- indolence
indolence
13,621 corpus weight
- Infantino
Infantino
13,620 corpus weight
- instate
instate
13,617 corpus weight
- instore
instore
13,616 corpus weight
- instrumenta…
instrumentally
13,615 corpus weight
- intaglio
intaglio
13,614 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “instate” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | instate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɪnˈsteɪt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,384 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “instate” in English
Rare enough to double-check
instate is uncommon English at frequency #86,384 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ɪnˈsteɪt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To install (someone) in office; to establish.".
No misspelling variants are generated for instate in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From in- + state (noun). The correct English form is instate, spelled I-N-S-T-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1To install (someone) in office; to establish.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how instate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Except that in the rest of society there was sex aplenty, with the hedonism of “the Sixties” almost officially instated as dogma, and the slow, surreptitious growth of this consensus to the then unguessed-at status of “correctness.”
Etymology
From in- + state (noun).
This word in other languages
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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