instinct
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,197
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
instinct is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mouvement intérieur qui est naturel aux animaux et qui les fait agir sans le secours de la réflexion pour accomplir des actes conformes à leur espèce et adaptés à leurs besoins. Pronounced \ɛ̃s.tɛ̃\. It ranks #7,197 in French word frequency. Often confused with instit and institut.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | instinct |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃s.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,197 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for instinct is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃s.tɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,197 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for instinct, with forms such as "innstinct", "insitnct", and "insstinct". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "instit", "institut", "instincts", 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 instinct, spelled I-N-S-T-I-N-C-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mouvement intérieur qui est naturel aux animaux et qui les fait agir sans le secours de la réflexion pour accomplir des actes conformes à leur espèce et adaptés à leurs besoins.
- 2Mouvement intérieur et involontaire auquel on attribue les actes non réfléchis, les sentiments indélibérés ou, par extension, une grande aptitude, une forte propension à quelque chose, en parlant de l’homme.
- 3Penchant spontané.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: innstinct,insitnct,insstinct,insticnt,instincct,instinctt,instinnct,instintc,instnict,insttinct,intsinct,isntinct,nistinct
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for instinct
Misspelling Variants of "instinct"
Frequency rank: #7,197 in French
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