incandescente
\ɛ̃.kɑ̃.de.sɑ̃t\
The verdict
“incandescente” is uncommon French (frequency #65,227 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,227
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de incandescent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-incandescente · incandescente · French
incandescente · rank #65,227 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,227
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH impulsifs
Nearest frequency peer: impulsifs (-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 « incandescente »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- impersonnel…
impersonnelle
34,777 corpus weight
- imprudemment
imprudemment
34,776 corpus weight
- impulsifs
impulsifs
34,775 corpus weight
- incandescen…
incandescente
34,774 corpus weight
- incarnera
incarnera
34,773 corpus weight
- incrustatio…
incrustations
34,772 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « incandescente » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | incandescente |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.kɑ̃.de.sɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #65,227 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « incandescente » en français
Rare enough to double-check
incandescente is uncommon French at frequency #65,227 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.kɑ̃.de.sɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de incandescent.".
incandescente has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is incandescente, spelled I-N-C-A-N-D-E-S-C-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de incandescent.
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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