instructive
\ɛ̃s.tʁyk.tiv\
The verdict
“instructive” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,817. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,817
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de instructif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-instructive · instructive · French
instructive · rank #40,817 · 17 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,817
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inonde
Nearest frequency peer: inonde (-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 « instructive »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- indéniables
indéniables
59,187 corpus weight
- infâmes
infâmes
59,186 corpus weight
- inonde
inonde
59,185 corpus weight
- instructive
instructive
59,184 corpus weight
- intermitten…
intermittente
59,183 corpus weight
- intrigant
intrigant
59,182 corpus weight
What this shows « instructive » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | instructive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃s.tʁyk.tiv\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #40,817 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « instructive »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around instructive (IPA \ɛ̃s.tʁyk.tiv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #40,817 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de instructif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for instructive, with forms such as "innstructive", "insrtuctive", and "insstructive". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "instructif", "instruction", "instinctive", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is instructive, spelled I-N-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de instructif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how instructive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- innstructive
- insrtuctive
- insstructive
- instrcutive
- instrructive
- instrucctive
- instrucitve
- instructiev
- instructivve
- instructtive
- instructvie
- instrutcive
- insttructive
- insturctive
- intsructive
- isntructive
- nistructive
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of instructive - 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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).