insectes
\ɛ̃.sɛkt\
The verdict
“insectes” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,354. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,354
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de insecte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-insectes · insectes · French
insectes · rank #5,354 · 12 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,354
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH initiale
Nearest frequency peer: initiale (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « insectes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- inconnue
inconnue
94,650 corpus weight
- indices
indices
94,649 corpus weight
- initiale
initiale
94,648 corpus weight
- insectes
insectes
94,647 corpus weight
- instructions
instructions
94,646 corpus weight
- Jackson
Jackson
94,645 corpus weight
What this shows « insectes » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | insectes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.sɛkt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,354 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « insectes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around insectes (IPA \ɛ̃.sɛkt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,354 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de insecte.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for insectes, with forms such as "inesctes", "innsectes", and "inscetes". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "insérés", "insultes", "intactes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 insectes, spelled I-N-S-E-C-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de insecte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how insectes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On sent, lorsqu’il en laisse échapper quelque chose, avec quelle joie il se renfermait dans sa coquille, comme ces insectes qui se cachent à l’approche de l’homme.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inesctes
- innsectes
- inscetes
- insecctes
- insecets
- insectess
- insectse
- insecttes
- insetces
- inssectes
- isnectes
- nisectes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of insectes - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "insectes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).