instits
\ɛ̃s.tit\
The verdict
“instits” is uncommon French (frequency #89,826 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,826
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de instit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-instits · instits · French
instits · rank #89,826 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,826
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inspirerait
Nearest frequency peer: inspirerait (-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 « instits »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- insinuent
insinuent
10,178 corpus weight
- insoupçonna…
insoupçonnable
10,177 corpus weight
- inspirerait
inspirerait
10,176 corpus weight
- instits
instits
10,175 corpus weight
- interagissa…
interagissant
10,174 corpus weight
- interludes
interludes
10,173 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « instits » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | instits |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃s.tit\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #89,826 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « instits » en français
Rare enough to double-check
instits is uncommon French at frequency #89,826 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃s.tit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de instit.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for instits, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 instits, spelled I-N-S-T-I-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de instit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how instits appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bien qu’entre-temps, les instits soient devenus professeurs des écoles.
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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