insistant
\ɛ̃.sis.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“insistant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,917. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,917
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se montre pressant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-insistant · insistant · French
insistant · rank #16,917 · 14 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,917
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH intendant
Nearest frequency peer: intendant (+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 « insistant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- informée
informée
83,087 corpus weight
- innovantes
innovantes
83,086 corpus weight
- insistant
insistant
83,084 corpus weight
- intendant
intendant
83,083 corpus weight
- internaute
internaute
83,082 corpus weight
- intervalles
intervalles
83,081 corpus weight
What this shows « insistant » 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 | insistant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.sis.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #16,917 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « insistant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around insistant (IPA \ɛ̃.sis.tɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,917 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for insistant, with forms such as "inisstant", "innsistant", and "insisatnt". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "instant", "invitant", "insultant", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is insistant, spelled I-N-S-I-S-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui se montre pressant.
- 2Persistant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how insistant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il se faisait, il devenait de plus en plus insistant.
Une odeur insistante.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inisstant
- innsistant
- insisatnt
- insisstant
- insistannt
- insistantt
- insistatn
- insistnat
- insisttant
- insitsant
- inssistant
- inssitant
- isnistant
- nisistant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of insistant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "insistant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).