insistance
French, noun\ɛ̃.sis.tɑ̃s\
insistance is spelled I-N-S-I-S-T-A-N-C-E (10 letters) and appears 3.1 times per million words in written French, the 15,592nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Insistance is a French feminine noun meaning “insistence” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action d’insister”.
What does insistance mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineinsistence
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action d’insister. 2. La vérité de l'existence, la raison de vivre et de lutter, car exister c'est insister pour continuer d'être et d'agir.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of insistance
- insistances plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce insistance?
- \ɛ̃.sis.tɑ̃s\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to insistance
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is insistance in French?
insistance appears 3.1 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).