institut

\ɛ̃s.ti.ty\

/\ɛ̃s.ti.ty\/ noun

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The verdict

“institut” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,663. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,663
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Constitution d’un ordre religieux, règle de vie qui est prescrite à cet ordre au temps de son établissement.

Corpus desk

Index FR-institut · institut · French

institut · rank #1,663 · 12 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,663
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH françaises

Nearest frequency peer: françaises (-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 « institut »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « institut » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

institut vs instituts
89% similar
institut vs institute
89% similar
institut vs instit
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for institut
PropertyValue
Headwordinstitut
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛ̃s.ti.ty\
Letters8
Frequency rank#1,663
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « institut »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).institutse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « françaises » (#1,662), « intervention » (#1,664), « exercice » (#1,661). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « institut » est au #1,663. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around institut (IPA \ɛ̃s.ti.ty\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,663 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for institut, with forms such as "innstitut", "insittut", and "insstitut". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "instituts", "institute", "instit", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is institut, spelled I-N-S-T-I-T-U-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Constitution d’un ordre religieux, règle de vie qui est prescrite à cet ordre au temps de son établissement.
  2. 2
    Cet ordre même.
  3. 3
    Société savante ou établissement d’enseignement supérieur indépendants ou annexés à une faculté.
  4. 4
    Nom 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.
  5. 5
    Établissement commercial qui dispense des soins divers.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how institut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Un louable, un pieux, un saint institut.
  2. Le chef d’un institut religieux.

This word in other languages

institute(English)instituto(Español)Institut(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • innstitut
  • insittut
  • insstitut
  • instittu
  • instittut
  • institutt
  • instiutt
  • insttitut
  • insttiut
  • intsitut
  • isntitut
  • nistitut

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of institut - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

innstitut1insittut2insstitut1instittu2instittut1institutt1instiutt2insttitut1
Edit distance from "institut"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "institut"?
"institut" is spelled I-N-S-T-I-T-U-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃s.ti.ty\.
What does "institut" mean?
As a noun, "institut" means: Constitution d’un ordre religieux, règle de vie qui est prescrite à cet ordre au temps de son établissement.
What words are commonly confused with "institut"?
"institut" is commonly confused with "instituts", "institute", "instit". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "institut"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "institut" is \ɛ̃s.ti.ty\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "institut" come from?
"institut" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "institut", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

exercice#1,661défendre#1,660milliers#1,667bataille#1,650

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

réaliser12 variantspourraient12 variantsBretagne12 variantspartager12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list