institutrice
\ɛ̃s.ti.ty.tʁis\
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
- imprévu
imprévu
80,683 corpus weight
- injecter
injecter
80,682 corpus weight
- injure
injure
80,681 corpus weight
- institutrice
institutrice
80,680 corpus weight
- intérimaire
intérimaire
80,679 corpus weight
- Irakien
Irakien
80,678 corpus weight
What this shows « institutrice » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | institutrice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃s.ti.ty.tʁis\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #19,321 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « institutrice »
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
- 1Femme qui enseigne dans une école primaire, publique ou privée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how institutrice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les dames institutrices durent être des religieuses.
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.
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
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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).