INSEE

\in.se\

/\in.se\/ name

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The verdict

“INSEE” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,517. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,517
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organisme chargé de la production et de l’analyse des statistiques officielles en France.

Corpus desk

Index FR-insee · INSEE · French

INSEE · rank #6,517 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,517
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH inquiéter

Nearest frequency peer: inquiéter (-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 « INSEE »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « INSEE » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

INSEE vs isle
0% similar
INSEE vs insu
0% similar
INSEE vs issue
0% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for INSEE
PropertyValue
HeadwordINSEE
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\in.se\
Letters5
Frequency rank#6,517
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « INSEE »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).INSEEse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « inquiéter » (#6,516), « indiquant » (#6,515), « intéressants » (#6,519). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « INSEE » est au #6,517. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around INSEE (IPA \in.se\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #6,517 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Organisme chargé de la production et de l’analyse des statistiques officielles en France.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for INSEE, with forms such as "inese", "innsee", and "inse". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "isle", "insu", "issue", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is INSEE, spelled I-N-S-E-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Organisme chargé de la production et de l’analyse des statistiques officielles en France.

Synonyms

Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • inese
  • innsee
  • inse
  • inssee
  • isnee
  • nisee

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of INSEE - 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.

inese2innsee1inse1inssee1isnee2nisee2
Edit distance from "INSEE"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "INSEE"?
"INSEE" is spelled I-N-S-E-E. The IPA pronunciation is \in.se\.
What does "INSEE" mean?
As a proper noun, "INSEE" means: Organisme chargé de la production et de l’analyse des statistiques officielles en France.
What words are commonly confused with "INSEE"?
"INSEE" is commonly confused with "isle", "insu", "issue". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "INSEE"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "INSEE" is \in.se\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "INSEE" come from?
"INSEE" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "INSEE", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

media#6,527nazis#6,530oeufs#6,534poing#6,541

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

just6 variantsnick6 variantsnuls6 variantsdemie6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list