institutes
\ɛ̃s.ti.tyt\
The verdict
“institutes” is uncommon French (frequency #75,792 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,792
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ouvrage destiné aux étudiants qui permettait l'apprentissage du droit romain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-institutes · institutes · French
institutes · rank #75,792 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,792
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH institua
Nearest frequency peer: institua (-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 « institutes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Insiders
Insiders
24,212 corpus weight
- inspiratrice
inspiratrice
24,211 corpus weight
- institua
institua
24,210 corpus weight
- institutes
institutes
24,209 corpus weight
- insultaient
insultaient
24,208 corpus weight
- interceptent
interceptent
24,207 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « institutes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | institutes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃s.ti.tyt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #75,792 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « institutes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
institutes is uncommon French at frequency #75,792 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃s.ti.tyt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for institutes, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is institutes, spelled I-N-S-T-I-T-U-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Ouvrage destiné aux étudiants qui permettait l'apprentissage du droit romain.
- 2Ouvrage destiné aux étudiants qui permettait l'apprentissage du droit romain.
- 3Ouvrages didactiques de droit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how institutes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les institutes de Gaïus, le jurisconsulte romain.
Les institutes furent publiées le 21 novembre 533.
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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