instaurer
\ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁe\
The verdict
“instaurer” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,234. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,234
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Établir, fonder.
Corpus desk
Index FR-instaurer · instaurer · French
instaurer · rank #11,234 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,234
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH initiales
Nearest frequency peer: initiales (-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 « instaurer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- identitaire
identitaire
88,770 corpus weight
- immersion
immersion
88,769 corpus weight
- initiales
initiales
88,768 corpus weight
- instaurer
instaurer
88,767 corpus weight
- insuffisant
insuffisant
88,766 corpus weight
- intersection
intersection
88,765 corpus weight
What this shows « instaurer » 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 | instaurer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #11,234 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « instaurer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around instaurer (IPA \ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #11,234 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Établir, fonder.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for instaurer, with forms such as "innstaurer", "insaturer", and "insstaurer". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "instaure", "installer", "instaurée", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is instaurer, spelled I-N-S-T-A-U-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Établir, fonder.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how instaurer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’évoque alors en rafale les rumeurs courant les salles de rédaction sur Ze Plan, qui instaurerait dans certains quartiers une sharia soft, mais Serge s’esclaffe « tout cela provient de la fuite d’un scénario de type « ultra-accommodant » de la cellule Prospective du ministère de l’Intérieur, c’est payé pour ça les cellules Prospectives, gamberger sans ta…
Partout elle avait trouvé bon accueil, prompt assentiment, mais elle se propose d'aller plus outre. Pourquoi ne pas instaurer une Adoration permanente du Saint Sacrement ?
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- innstaurer
- insaturer
- insstaurer
- instaruer
- instauerr
- instaurerr
- instaurre
- instaurrer
- insttaurer
- instuarer
- intsaurer
- isntaurer
- nistaurer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of instaurer - 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
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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 (13 here; floor ≥5).