instruction
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,765
in French word usage
Misspellings
17
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
instruction is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action d’instruire quelqu’un sur les préceptes, les principes nécessaires à son éducation. Pronounced \ɛ̃s.tʁyk.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #3,765 in French word frequency. Often confused with instructive and instructions.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | instruction |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃s.tʁyk.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #3,765 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for instruction is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃s.tʁyk.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,765 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for instruction, with forms such as "innstruction", "insrtuction", and "insstruction". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "instructive", "instructions", "instructif", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is instruction, spelled I-N-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action d’instruire quelqu’un sur les préceptes, les principes nécessaires à son éducation.
- 2Connaissances ; savoir ; notions acquises.
- 3Leçon, précepte, surtout d’action morale, qu’on donne pour instruire.
- 4Connaissance qu’on donne à quelqu’un de certains faits, de certains usages qu’il ignore.
- 5Ordres, explications, avis qu’une personne donne à une autre pour la conduite de quelque affaire, de quelque entreprise. — Note d’usage : Dans ce sens, il s’emploie surtout au pluriel.
- 6Ordres, des explications écrites ou verbales qu’un prince ou un gouvernement donne à son ambassadeur, à son envoyé, à son délégué, sur la manière de se conduire dans la mission dont il le charge.
- 7Toutes les formalités nécessaires pour mettre une cause, une affaire délictuelle ou criminelle en état d’être jugée.
- 8Informations ou directives présentées aux différents acteurs d’une opération avant le début de celle-ci.
- 9Étape d’un programme informatique.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: innstruction,insrtuction,insstruction,instrcution,instrruction,instrucction,instruciton,instructino,instructionn,instructoin,instructtion,instrutcion,insttruction,insturction,intsruction,isntruction,nistruction
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for instruction
Misspelling Variants of "instruction"
Frequency rank: #3,765 in French
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