instiller
\ɛ̃s.ti.le\
The verdict
“instiller” is uncommon French (frequency #70,743 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,743
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire couler, verser goutte à goutte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-instiller · instiller · French
instiller · rank #70,743 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,743
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inquiétais
Nearest frequency peer: inquiétais (-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 « instiller »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- inno
inno
29,261 corpus weight
- innus
innus
29,260 corpus weight
- inquiétais
inquiétais
29,259 corpus weight
- instiller
instiller
29,258 corpus weight
- interallié
interallié
29,257 corpus weight
- intercommun…
intercommunaux
29,256 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « instiller » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | instiller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃s.ti.le\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,743 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « instiller » en français
Rare enough to double-check
instiller is uncommon French at frequency #70,743 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃s.ti.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for instiller, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is instiller, spelled I-N-S-T-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire couler, verser goutte à goutte.
- 2Administrer une solution médicamenteuse à quelqu’un.
- 3Faire pénétrer progressivement une idée, un sentiment, etc dans l'esprit d'une personne.
- 4(pronominal) Pénétrer progressivement dans l'esprit d'une personne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how instiller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Instiller quelques gouttes d’alcool dans une plaie.
Perdre la foi n’est pas seulement une catastrophe spirituelle, mais un crime social, une perverse rébellion contre les traditions instillées dès le berceau.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).