instruire
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,045
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
instruire is aFrenchverb. It means: Enseigner quelque chose à quelqu’un, lui apprendre quelque chose, lui donner des leçons, des préceptes pour les mœurs, pour quelque science, etc. Pronounced \ɛ̃s.tʁɥiʁ\. Often confused with instruit and instruits.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | instruire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃s.tʁɥiʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #19,045 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for instruire is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃s.tʁɥiʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #19,045 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for instruire, with forms such as "innstruire", "insrtuire", and "insstruire". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "instruit", "instruits", "instruite", and more, 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 instruire, spelled I-N-S-T-R-U-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Enseigner quelque chose à quelqu’un, lui apprendre quelque chose, lui donner des leçons, des préceptes pour les mœurs, pour quelque science, etc.
- 2Peut se dire aussi des choses.
- 3Informer, avertir, donner connaissance de quelque fait.
- 4Présenter aux acteurs concernés des informations ou des directives relatives à une opération avant le début de celle-ci.
- 5Mettre une cause ou une affaire, civile ou criminelle, en état d’être jugée.
- 6Procéder à l’instruction d’un dossier, d’une démarche.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: innstruire,insrtuire,insstruire,instriure,instrruire,instruier,instruirre,instrurie,insttruire,insturire,intsruire,isntruire,nistruire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for instruire
Misspelling Variants of "instruire"
Frequency rank: #19,045 in French
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