institutrice

\ɛ̃s.ti.ty.tʁis\

/\ɛ̃s.ti.ty.tʁis\/ noun

The verdict

“institutrice” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,321. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#19,321
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
18
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme qui enseigne dans une école primaire, publique ou privée.

Corpus desk

Index FR-institutrice · institutrice · French

institutrice · rank #19,321 · 18 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #19,321
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 18 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH injure

Nearest frequency peer: injure (-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 « institutrice »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « institutrice » 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
Key facts for institutrice
PropertyValue
Headwordinstitutrice
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛ̃s.ti.ty.tʁis\
Letters12
Frequency rank#19,321
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « institutrice »

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « injure » (#19,320), « intérimaire » (#19,322), « injecter » (#19,319). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « institutrice » est au #19,321. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 18 spelling variants around institutrice (IPA \ɛ̃s.ti.ty.tʁis\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,321 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Femme qui enseigne dans une école primaire, publique ou privée.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for institutrice, with forms such as "innstitutrice", "insittutrice", and "insstitutrice". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is institutrice, spelled I-N-S-T-I-T-U-T-R-I-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Femme qui enseigne dans une école primaire, publique ou privée.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Les dames institutrices durent être des religieuses.
  2. Mais, au fait, les institutrices sont de deux sortes : les normaliennes et les autres, simplement pourvues du brevet élémentaire ou du brevet supérieur. Mme Paulin m’a appris cette importante différence, du premier jour, rien qu’à sa façon d’appeler Mlle Bord « la normalienne », et moi-même, depuis, j’ai constaté non seulement une dissemblance, mais un an…

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • innstitutrice
  • insittutrice
  • insstitutrice
  • institturice
  • instittutrice
  • institurtice
  • institutirce
  • institutrcie
  • institutricce
  • institutriec
  • institutrrice
  • instituttrice
  • instiuttrice
  • insttitutrice
  • insttiutrice
  • intsitutrice
  • isntitutrice
  • nistitutrice

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

innstitutrice1insittutrice2insstitutrice1institturice2instittutrice1institurtice2institutirce2institutrcie2
Edit distance from "institutrice"

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 "institutrice"?
"institutrice" is spelled I-N-S-T-I-T-U-T-R-I-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃s.ti.ty.tʁis\.
What does "institutrice" mean?
As a noun, "institutrice" means: Femme qui enseigne dans une école primaire, publique ou privée.
What are common misspellings of "institutrice"?
Common misspellings include "innstitutrice", "insittutrice", "insstitutrice", "institturice", "instittutrice". The correct spelling is "institutrice".
How do you pronounce "institutrice"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "institutrice" is \ɛ̃s.ti.ty.tʁis\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "institutrice" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "institutrice", 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).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list