incandescent
\ɛ̃.kɑ̃.de.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“incandescent” is uncommon French (frequency #66,008 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,008
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est dans l’état d’incandescence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-incandescent · incandescent · French
incandescent · rank #66,008 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,008
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inaugurait
Nearest frequency peer: inaugurait (-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 « incandescent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- impaire
impaire
33,996 corpus weight
- imposeront
imposeront
33,995 corpus weight
- inaugurait
inaugurait
33,994 corpus weight
- incandescent
incandescent
33,993 corpus weight
- incombant
incombant
33,992 corpus weight
- indigent
indigent
33,991 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « incandescent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | incandescent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.kɑ̃.de.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #66,008 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « incandescent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
incandescent is uncommon French at frequency #66,008 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.kɑ̃.de.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est dans l’état d’incandescence.".
incandescent doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is incandescent, spelled I-N-C-A-N-D-E-S-C-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui est dans l’état d’incandescence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how incandescent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorsque cette masse incandescente sortit des entrailles de la terre, elle se trouva entourée d'eau et se refroidit rapidement.
Chaque canonnier était à sa place : l'un tenait une longue louche, un autre un boutefeu en bois et une grande bougie incandescente, prêt à allumer la poudre, […].
This word in other languages
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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