insultant

adj

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#12,598

in French word usage

Misspellings

14

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

insultant is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui tient de l’insulte. Often confused with insultent and insultants.

Key facts for insultant
PropertyValue
Headwordinsultant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
Letters9
Frequency rank#12,598
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of insultant in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for insultant is 9 letters long, classified as anadj. Corpus data places it at rank #12,598 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Qui tient de l’insulte.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for insultant, with forms such as "innsultant", "inslutant", and "inssultant". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "insultent", "insultants", "instant", 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 insultant, spelled I-N-S-U-L-T-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui tient de l’insulte.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: innsultant,inslutant,inssultant,insulatnt,insulltant,insultannt,insultantt,insultatn,insultnat,insulttant,insutlant,inusltant,isnultant,nisultant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for insultant

Misspelling Variants of "insultant"

innsultant10inslutant9inssultant10insulatnt9insulltant10insultannt10insultantt10insultatn9
Misspelling Variants of "insultant"

Frequency rank: #12,598 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "insultant"?
"insultant" is spelled I-N-S-U-L-T-A-N-T.
What does "insultant" mean?
As an adj, "insultant" means: Qui tient de l’insulte.
What words are commonly confused with "insultant"?
"insultant" is commonly confused with "insultent", "insultants", "instant". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "insultant" come from?
"insultant" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.