incentivised
"incentivised" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“incentivised” is uncommon English (frequency #98,251 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,251
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of incentivise
Corpus desk
Index EN-incentivised · incentivised · English
incentivised · rank #98,251 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,251
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH inconspicuous…
Nearest frequency peer: inconspicuously (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “incentivised”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- incentivised
incentivised
1,750 corpus weight
- inconspicuo…
inconspicuously
1,749 corpus weight
- incontestab…
incontestable
1,748 corpus weight
- industriali…
industrialize
1,745 corpus weight
- ineffective…
ineffectively
1,744 corpus weight
- infallibly
infallibly
1,743 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “incentivised” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | incentivised |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #98,251 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “incentivised” in English
Rare enough to double-check
incentivised is uncommon English at frequency #98,251 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of incentivise".
Zero misspellings are on record for incentivised in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is incentivised, spelled I-N-C-E-N-T-I-V-I-S-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of incentivise
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how incentivised appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The boss incentivised the workforce by offering bonuses.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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