institutions
\ɛ̃s.ti.ty.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“institutions” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,282. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,282
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de institution.
Corpus desk
Index FR-institutions · institutions · French
institutions · rank #2,282 · 18 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #2,282
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH infos
Nearest frequency peer: infos (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “institutions”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- gentil
gentil
97,721 corpus weight
- infos
infos
97,720 corpus weight
- institutions
institutions
97,719 corpus weight
- japonais
japonais
97,718 corpus weight
- jugement
jugement
97,717 corpus weight
- limites
limites
97,716 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “institutions” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | institutions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃s.ti.ty.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #2,282 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “institutions” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around institutions (IPA \ɛ̃s.ti.ty.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,282 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de institution.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for institutions, with forms such as "innstitutions", "insittutions", and "insstitutions". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "institution", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is institutions, spelled I-N-S-T-I-T-U-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de institution.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how institutions appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bref, malgré ses protestations, Voltaire nous paraît bien avoir mis la main à l’encensoir de l’encyclopède comme à celui du prêtre hérétique : l’article Genève a été pour lui une nouvelle Lettre philosophique, où l’éloge de Genève, comme celui de l’Angleterre jadis, n’était qu’un prétexte pour critiquer la France, ses institutions et son clergé.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- innstitutions
- insittutions
- insstitutions
- instittuions
- instittutions
- instituitons
- institutinos
- institutionns
- institutionss
- institutiosn
- institutoins
- instituttions
- instiuttions
- insttitutions
- insttiutions
- intsitutions
- isntitutions
- nistitutions
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of institutions - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "institutions", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- This headword has one recorded confusable pair with "institution". View pair
- 18 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #2,282 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.