insulte
\ɛ̃.sylt\
The verdict
“insulte” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,256. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,256
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Outrage, de fait ou de parole, avec dessein prémédité d’offenser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-insulte · insulte · French
insulte · rank #5,256 · 10 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,256
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH installe
Nearest frequency peer: installe (-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 « insulte »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- imaginez
imaginez
94,749 corpus weight
- indiquer
indiquer
94,748 corpus weight
- installe
installe
94,746 corpus weight
- insulte
insulte
94,745 corpus weight
- Jim
Jim
94,742 corpus weight
- librairie
librairie
94,741 corpus weight
What this shows « insulte » 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 | insulte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.sylt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,256 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « insulte »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around insulte (IPA \ɛ̃.sylt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,256 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for insulte, with forms such as "innsulte", "inslute", and "inssulte". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "insurgé", "insulter", "insultes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is insulte, spelled I-N-S-U-L-T-E.
Definition
- 1Outrage, de fait ou de parole, avec dessein prémédité d’offenser.
- 2Paroles ou propos destinés habituellement à cet usage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how insulte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pris d’un zèle soudain, il redéposa son fardeau dans la camionnette, bondit à son volant, et dégagea le véhicule avec une telle brusquerie, qu’un conducteur, trop serré, freina brutalement, et l’agonit d’insultes.
Une insulte faite au baylon (…) est punie d'une amende de dix écus, et même de la prison, à la diligence du viguier ; le délinquant ne sortait de prison que sur l'intervention du syndic.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- innsulte
- inslute
- inssulte
- insulet
- insullte
- insultte
- insutle
- inuslte
- isnulte
- nisulte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of insulte - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "insulte", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).