insistent
\ɛ̃.sist\
The verdict
“insistent” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,051. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,051
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de insister.
Corpus desk
Index FR-insistent · insistent · French
insistent · rank #21,051 · 14 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,051
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH innovante
Nearest frequency peer: innovante (-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 « insistent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ingénieux
ingénieux
78,953 corpus weight
- innovante
innovante
78,951 corpus weight
- insistent
insistent
78,950 corpus weight
- insoumise
insoumise
78,949 corpus weight
- invitées
invitées
78,947 corpus weight
- invoquant
invoquant
78,946 corpus weight
What this shows « insistent » 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 | insistent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.sist\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #21,051 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « insistent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around insistent (IPA \ɛ̃.sist\), averb. Corpus frequency is #21,051 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 insistent, with forms such as "inisstent", "innsistent", and "insisetnt". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "insister", "invitent", "insultent", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is insistent, spelled I-N-S-I-S-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de insister.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de insister.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how insistent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Ces nouveaux écosystèmes ont un rôle majeur à jouer, tant en matière d’habitats pour le vivant que pour l’adaptation au changement climatique », insistent Jean-Baptiste Bosson et Jean-Christophe Poupet, directeur du programme Alpes du WWF France, également dans l’équipe d’Ice & Life.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inisstent
- innsistent
- insisetnt
- insisstent
- insistennt
- insistentt
- insistetn
- insistnet
- insisttent
- insitsent
- inssistent
- inssitent
- isnistent
- nisistent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of insistent - 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 "insistent", 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).