instituteur
\ɛ̃s.ti.ty.tœʁ\
The verdict
“instituteur” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,156. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,156
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dans l'esprit de celui ou de celle qui enseigne dans une école primaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-instituteur · instituteur · French
instituteur · rank #16,156 · 16 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,156
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inhabituel
Nearest frequency peer: inhabituel (-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 « instituteur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- indiennes
indiennes
83,848 corpus weight
- industriali…
industrialisation
83,847 corpus weight
- inhabituel
inhabituel
83,846 corpus weight
- instituteur
instituteur
83,845 corpus weight
- intacte
intacte
83,844 corpus weight
- interpelle
interpelle
83,843 corpus weight
What this shows « instituteur » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | instituteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃s.ti.ty.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #16,156 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « instituteur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around instituteur (IPA \ɛ̃s.ti.ty.tœʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,156 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Dans l'esprit de celui ou de celle qui enseigne dans une école primaire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for instituteur, with forms such as "innstituteur", "insittuteur", and "insstituteur". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "instituteurs", "institute", "instituer", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is instituteur, spelled I-N-S-T-I-T-U-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Dans l'esprit de celui ou de celle qui enseigne dans une école primaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how instituteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mademoiselle va commencer. Droite, sculpturale, le visage blanc et doux, au-dessus de son costume noir, elle a bien l’âme institutrice ; quelque chose d’unique, de professionnel s’émane d’elle et les enfants apprivoisés perçoivent bien qu’elle est d’une race à part.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- innstituteur
- insittuteur
- insstituteur
- instittueur
- instittuteur
- instituetur
- instituteru
- instituteurr
- institutteur
- institutuer
- instiutteur
- insttituteur
- insttiuteur
- intsituteur
- isntituteur
- nistituteur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of instituteur - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "instituteur", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).