institut
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,663
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
institut is aFrenchnoun. It means: Constitution d’un ordre religieux, règle de vie qui est prescrite à cet ordre au temps de son établissement. Pronounced \ɛ̃s.ti.ty\. It ranks #1,663 in French word frequency. Often confused with instituts and institute.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | institut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃s.ti.ty\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,663 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for institut is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃s.ti.ty\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,663 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for institut, with forms such as "innstitut", "insittut", and "insstitut". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "instituts", "institute", "instit", 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 institut, spelled I-N-S-T-I-T-U-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Constitution d’un ordre religieux, règle de vie qui est prescrite à cet ordre au temps de son établissement.
- 2Cet ordre même.
- 3Société savante ou établissement d’enseignement supérieur indépendants ou annexés à une faculté.
- 4Nom sous lequel la Convention a groupé en 1795 l'Académie française, l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, l'Académie des sciences, l'Académie des beaux-arts, auxquelles a été ajoutée en 1832 l’Académie des sciences morales et politiques.
- 5Établissement commercial qui dispense des soins divers.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: innstitut,insittut,insstitut,instittu,instittut,institutt,instiutt,insttitut,insttiut,intsitut,isntitut,nistitut
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for institut
Misspelling Variants of "institut"
Frequency rank: #1,663 in French
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