instruments
\ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“instruments” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,685. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,685
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de instrument.
Corpus desk
Index FR-instruments · instruments · French
instruments · rank #3,685 · 18 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,685
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inscrire
Nearest frequency peer: inscrire (-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 « instruments »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Gérard
Gérard
96,319 corpus weight
- hockey
hockey
96,318 corpus weight
- inscrire
inscrire
96,317 corpus weight
- instruments
instruments
96,316 corpus weight
- internation…
internationaux
96,315 corpus weight
- intervenir
intervenir
96,314 corpus weight
What this shows « instruments » 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 | instruments |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #3,685 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « instruments »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around instruments (IPA \ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,685 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de instrument.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for instruments, with forms such as "innstruments", "insrtuments", and "insstruments". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "instrument", "instrumental", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is instruments, spelled I-N-S-T-R-U-M-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de instrument.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how instruments appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On nomme baromètres des instruments propres à mesurer la pression atmosphérique.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- innstruments
- insrtuments
- insstruments
- instrmuents
- instrruments
- instruemnts
- instrumennts
- instrumenst
- instrumentss
- instrumentts
- instrumetns
- instrumments
- instrumnets
- insttruments
- insturments
- intsruments
- isntruments
- nistruments
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of instruments - 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 "instruments", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).