insistes
\ɛ̃.sist\
The verdict
“insistes” is uncommon French (frequency #54,036 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,036
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de insister.
Corpus desk
Index FR-insistes · insistes · French
insistes · rank #54,036 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,036
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH insidieusement
Nearest frequency peer: insidieusement (-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 « insistes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- inorganique
inorganique
45,969 corpus weight
- inscrira
inscrira
45,967 corpus weight
- insidieusem…
insidieusement
45,966 corpus weight
- insistes
insistes
45,965 corpus weight
- insultait
insultait
45,964 corpus weight
- interlude
interlude
45,962 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « insistes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | insistes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.sist\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,036 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « insistes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
insistes is uncommon French at frequency #54,036 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃.sist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for insistes, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 insistes, spelled I-N-S-I-S-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de insister.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de insister.
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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