istituto
\i.sti.ˈtu.to\
The verdict
“istituto” is uncommon French (frequency #69,938 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,938
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Institut.
Corpus desk
Index FR-istituto · istituto · French
istituto · rank #69,938 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,938
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH irriguée
Nearest frequency peer: irriguée (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « istituto »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- introduis
introduis
30,067 corpus weight
- intrusives
intrusives
30,066 corpus weight
- irriguée
irriguée
30,064 corpus weight
- istituto
istituto
30,063 corpus weight
- isu
isu
30,062 corpus weight
- itérations
itérations
30,061 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « istituto » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | istituto |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.sti.ˈtu.to\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,938 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « istituto » en français
Rare enough to double-check
istituto is uncommon French at frequency #69,938 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.sti.ˈtu.to\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for istituto in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 istituto, spelled I-S-T-I-T-U-T-O.
Definition
- 1Institut.
- 2Établissement scolaire.
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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