instruisent
\ɛ̃s.tʁɥiz\
The verdict
“instruisent” is uncommon French (frequency #84,901 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,901
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de instruire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-instruisent · instruisent · French
instruisent · rank #84,901 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,901
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH insatisfaisant
Nearest frequency peer: insatisfaisant (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « instruisent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- inextricabl…
inextricables
15,104 corpus weight
- infertile
infertile
15,103 corpus weight
- insatisfais…
insatisfaisant
15,101 corpus weight
- instruisent
instruisent
15,100 corpus weight
- interrogeais
interrogeais
15,098 corpus weight
- intitulera
intitulera
15,097 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « instruisent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | instruisent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃s.tʁɥiz\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #84,901 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « instruisent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
instruisent is uncommon French at frequency #84,901 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃s.tʁɥiz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for instruisent, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is instruisent, spelled I-N-S-T-R-U-I-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de instruire.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de instruire.
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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