instigateur
\ɛ̃s.ti.ɡa.tœʁ\
The verdict
“instigateur” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,449. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,449
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui incite ou qui pousse à faire quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-instigateur · instigateur · French
instigateur · rank #32,449 · 16 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,449
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH insomnies
Nearest frequency peer: insomnies (-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 « instigateur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- infinity
infinity
67,555 corpus weight
- ingrats
ingrats
67,554 corpus weight
- insomnies
insomnies
67,553 corpus weight
- instigateur
instigateur
67,552 corpus weight
- intraveineu…
intraveineuse
67,551 corpus weight
- invoquée
invoquée
67,550 corpus weight
What this shows « instigateur » 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 | instigateur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃s.ti.ɡa.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #32,449 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « instigateur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around instigateur (IPA \ɛ̃s.ti.ɡa.tœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,449 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Personne qui incite ou qui pousse à faire quelque chose.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for instigateur, with forms such as "innstigateur", "insitgateur", and "insstigateur". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "instituteur", "instigateurs", "initiateur", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is instigateur, spelled I-N-S-T-I-G-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Personne qui incite ou qui pousse à faire quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how instigateur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je croyais ce secret enseveli dans mon propre sein et dans celui d’une femme, l’instigatrice, la complice de mon crime.
[…], tout concourait en même temps pour préparer la chute de la branche aînée des Bourbons; mais, de la probabilité à l'accomplissement du fait, il y avait loin , et l'on ne peut disconvenir que M. Thiers et tous les instigateurs du mouvement ne jouassent gros jeu.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- innstigateur
- insitgateur
- insstigateur
- instgiateur
- instiagteur
- instigaetur
- instigateru
- instigateurr
- instigatteur
- instigatuer
- instiggateur
- instigtaeur
- insttigateur
- intsigateur
- isntigateur
- nistigateur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of instigateur - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).