instable
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,077
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
instable is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui manque de stabilité. Pronounced \ɛ̃s.tabl\. Often confused with instance and installe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | instable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ɛ̃s.tabl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,077 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for instable is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃s.tabl\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,077 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for instable, with forms such as "innstable", "insatble", and "insstable". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "instance", "installe", "instaure", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is instable, spelled I-N-S-T-A-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui manque de stabilité.
- 2Qualifie un équilibre qui se détruit au moindre déplacement.
- 3Qui n'est pas régulier, qui varie.
- 4Qui se défait aisément.
- 5Qui perd facilement ses qualités mécaniques ou physiques.
- 6Qualifie un peuplement qui montre une vulnérabilité élevée aux dégâts causés par le vent.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: innstable,insatble,insstable,instabble,instabel,instablle,instalbe,instbale,insttable,intsable,isntable,nistable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "instable"
Frequency rank: #11,077 in French
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