instructif

\ɛ̃s.tʁyk.tif\

/\ɛ̃s.tʁyk.tif\/ adj

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The verdict

“instructif” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,472. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#20,472
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
16
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui instruit, en parlant des choses.

Corpus desk

Index FR-instructif · instructif · French

instructif · rank #20,472 · 16 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #20,472
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 16 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH Insomnie

Nearest frequency peer: Insomnie (-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 « instructif »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « instructif » 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

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

instructif vs instruction
82% similar
instructif vs instructive
82% similar
instructif vs instinctif
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for instructif
PropertyValue
Headwordinstructif
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ɛ̃s.tʁyk.tif\
Letters10
Frequency rank#20,472
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « instructif »

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

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Insomnie » (#20,471), « interdictions » (#20,473), « inhabituelle » (#20,470). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « instructif » est au #20,472. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around instructif (IPA \ɛ̃s.tʁyk.tif\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #20,472 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui instruit, en parlant des choses.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for instructif, with forms such as "innstructif", "insrtuctif", and "insstructif". 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 also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "instruction", "instructive", "instinctif", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is instructif, spelled I-N-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-F.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui instruit, en parlant des choses.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Ils choisiront dans ce dernier Ordre un secrétaire qui ne fera pas partie des 144 députés, sera révocable à volonté, et n'aura que voix instructive ; […].
  2. L’exposition Un siècle de dessins dans les écoles genevoises organisée du 24 mai au 31 décembre 2006 par le MEG (Musée d’ethnographie de Genève), à l’annexe de Conches, était très instructive à ce sujet.

This word in other languages

instructive(English)instructivo(Español)lehrreich(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • innstructif
  • insrtuctif
  • insstructif
  • instrcutif
  • instrructif
  • instrucctif
  • instrucitf
  • instructfi
  • instructiff
  • instructtif
  • instrutcif
  • insttructif
  • insturctif
  • intsructif
  • isntructif
  • nistructif

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of instructif - 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.

innstructif1insrtuctif2insstructif1instrcutif2instrructif1instrucctif1instrucitf2instructfi2
Edit distance from "instructif"

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 "instructif"?
"instructif" is spelled I-N-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-F. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃s.tʁyk.tif\.
What does "instructif" mean?
As an adjective, "instructif" means: Qui instruit, en parlant des choses.
What words are commonly confused with "instructif"?
"instructif" is commonly confused with "instruction", "instructive", "instinctif". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "instructif"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "instructif" is \ɛ̃s.tʁyk.tif\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "instructif" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "instructif", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Ivoirienne#20,476indexation#20,467jihadistes#20,477majoration#20,492

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

manuellement16 variantsexagération16 variantsmusculation16 variantsenchaînent16 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list