insultes

\ɛ̃.sylt\

/\ɛ̃.sylt\/ noun

The verdict

“insultes” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,403. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,403
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
13
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de insulte.

Corpus desk

Index FR-insultes · insultes · French

insultes · rank #6,403 · 12 variants · 13 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,403
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH insulter

Nearest frequency peer: insulter (-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 « insultes »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « insultes » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

insultes vs insurgés
63% similar
insultes vs insultez
88% similar
insultes vs insulte
88% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for insultes
PropertyValue
Headwordinsultes
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛ̃.sylt\
Letters8
Frequency rank#6,403
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « insultes »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).insultesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « insulter » (#6,402), « intéressent » (#6,404), « instants » (#6,401). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « insultes » est au #6,403. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around insultes (IPA \ɛ̃.sylt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,403 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de insulte.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for insultes, with forms such as "innsultes", "inslutes", and "inssultes". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "insurgés", "insultez", "insulte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is insultes, spelled I-N-S-U-L-T-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de insulte.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how insultes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • innsultes
  • inslutes
  • inssultes
  • insulets
  • insulltes
  • insultess
  • insultse
  • insulttes
  • insutles
  • inusltes
  • isnultes
  • nisultes

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of insultes - 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.

innsultes1inslutes2inssultes1insulets2insulltes1insultess1insultse2insulttes1
Edit distance from "insultes"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "insultes"?
"insultes" is spelled I-N-S-U-L-T-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.sylt\.
What does "insultes" mean?
As a noun, "insultes" means: Pluriel de insulte.
What words are commonly confused with "insultes"?
"insultes" is commonly confused with "insurgés", "insultez", "insulte". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "insultes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "insultes" is \ɛ̃.sylt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "insultes" come from?
"insultes" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "insultes", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list