insista
\ɛ̃.sis.ta\
The verdict
“insista” is uncommon French (frequency #52,755 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,755
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de insister.
Corpus desk
Index FR-insista · insista · French
insista · rank #52,755 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,755
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inoccupé
Nearest frequency peer: inoccupé (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « insista »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- indemnisati…
indemnisations
47,249 corpus weight
- inoccupé
inoccupé
47,247 corpus weight
- insista
insista
47,246 corpus weight
- instrumenti…
instrumentiste
47,245 corpus weight
- interceptés
interceptés
47,244 corpus weight
- internée
internée
47,243 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « insista » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | insista |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.sis.ta\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,755 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « insista » en français
Rare enough to double-check
insista is uncommon French at frequency #52,755 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃.sis.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de insister.".
insista has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is insista, spelled I-N-S-I-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de insister.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how insista appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jack Burns insista pour qu’on ne traversât pas à nouveau le village Huambisas, afin de ne pas effrayer inutilement les indigènes.
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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