d’instinct
\d‿ɛ̃s.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“d’instinct” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instinctivement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-d-instinct · d’instinct · French
d’instinct · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | d’instinct |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \d‿ɛ̃s.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
d’instinct is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \d‿ɛ̃s.tɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Instinctivement.".
d’instinct doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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. The correct French form is d’instinct, spelled D-’-I-N-S-T-I-N-C-T.
Definition
- 1Instinctivement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how d’instinct appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai pris cette route d’instinct et c’était la bonne.
J’ai fait cela d’instinct et j’ai bien fait.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.