à l’instar de

/\a l‿ɛ̃s.taʁ də\/ prep

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

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à l’instar de is aFrenchprep. It means: Comme, de la même manière que, à la manière de, à l’exemple de. Pronounced \a l‿ɛ̃s.taʁ də\.

Key facts for à l’instar de
PropertyValue
Headwordà l’instar de
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPrep
IPA\a l‿ɛ̃s.taʁ də\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à l’instar de is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for à l’instar de is 13 letters long, classified as aprep, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a l‿ɛ̃s.taʁ də\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Comme, de la même manière que, à la manière de, à l’exemple de.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for à l’instar de in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is à l’instar de, spelled À- -L-’-I-N-S-T-A-R- -D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Comme, de la même manière que, à la manière de, à l’exemple de.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à l’instar de"?
"à l’instar de" is spelled À- -L-’-I-N-S-T-A-R- -D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a l‿ɛ̃s.taʁ də\.
What does "à l’instar de" mean?
As a prep, "à l’instar de" means: Comme, de la même manière que, à la manière de, à l’exemple de.
How do you pronounce "à l’instar de"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à l’instar de" is \a l‿ɛ̃s.taʁ də\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à l’instar de" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.