instrumental
\ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.tal\
The verdict
“instrumental” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,608. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,608
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui sert d’instrument.
Corpus desk
Index FR-instrumental · instrumental · French
instrumental · rank #28,608 · 19 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,608
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH instituée
Nearest frequency peer: instituée (-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 « instrumental »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- insolente
insolente
71,396 corpus weight
- instaurée
instaurée
71,395 corpus weight
- instituée
instituée
71,394 corpus weight
- instrumental
instrumental
71,393 corpus weight
- intermitten…
intermittence
71,392 corpus weight
- inutilité
inutilité
71,391 corpus weight
What this shows « instrumental » 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 | instrumental |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.tal\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #28,608 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « instrumental »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around instrumental (IPA \ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.tal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #28,608 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for instrumental, with forms such as "innstrumental", "insrtumental", and "insstrumental". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "instruments", "instrumentale", "instrumentales", and more, 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is instrumental, spelled I-N-S-T-R-U-M-E-N-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui sert d’instrument.
- 2Qui s’exécute, qui doit être joué par des instruments, par opposition à vocal.
- 3Qualifie un cas de déclinaison exprimant la manière, le moyen.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how instrumental appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La cause instrumentale.
La musique exprime les sentiments, mais elle serait bien empêchée de les définir, et, sans le commentaire des paroles, absent de la musique instrumentale, l’auditeur reste toujours dans un certain vague quant à la nature et à l’objet du sentiment dont s’est inspiré le musicien.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- innstrumental
- insrtumental
- insstrumental
- instrmuental
- instrrumental
- instruemntal
- instrumenatl
- instrumenntal
- instrumentall
- instrumentla
- instrumenttal
- instrumetnal
- instrummental
- instrumnetal
- insttrumental
- insturmental
- intsrumental
- isntrumental
- nistrumental
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of instrumental - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "instrumental", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).