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incunabula

noun

incunabula is spelled I-N-C-U-N-A-B-U-L-A. The wrong spelling people search most is incunabla: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 35 of all searches for the word. Incunabula is a noun meaning “Early printed books”.

How do you spell incunabula?

Incunabula is spelled I-N-C-U-N-A-B-U-L-A. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 35 of the searches for incunabula in either form.

incunabulathe right spelling340 searches a month
incunablaa missing u10 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

What does incunabula mean?

noun

  1. 1

    plural of incunabulum (a form of incunabulum)

  2. 2

    Early printed books.

  3. 3

    Collectively, the early works of a writer; juvenilia.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is incunabula?

Incunabula appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).