insecte
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,985
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
insecte is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petit animal invertébré, arthropode dont l'adulte est constitué de trois parties (tête, thorax, abdomen) protégées par un exosquelette de chitine et possédant au moins une paire d’yeux composés, un... Pronounced \ɛ̃.sɛkt\. Often confused with INSEE and insère.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | insecte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.sɛkt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,985 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for insecte is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.sɛkt\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,985 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for insecte, with forms such as "inescte", "innsecte", and "inscete". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "INSEE", "insère", "insert", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 insecte, spelled I-N-S-E-C-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petit animal invertébré, arthropode dont l'adulte est constitué de trois parties (tête, thorax, abdomen) protégées par un exosquelette de chitine et possédant au moins une paire d’yeux composés, une paire d’antennes, trois paires de pattes articulées et deux paires d’ailes parfois atrophiées.
- 2Imago de cet animal, c'est-à-dire l'adulte anciennement considéré comme linsecte parfait.
- 3(Par extension) (familier) Toutes espèces d'arthropodes, incluant les araignées, les tiques, les mille-pattes, les collemboles, etc... Note : Cet usage est considéré comme fautif par les biologistes.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: inescte,innsecte,inscete,inseccte,insecet,insectte,insetce,inssecte,isnecte,nisecte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for insecte
Misspelling Variants of "insecte"
Frequency rank: #11,985 in French
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