incarnation
French, noun/ɛ̃.kaʁ.na.sjɔ̃/
incarnation is spelled I-N-C-A-R-N-A-T-I-O-N (11 letters) and appears 4.1 times per million words in written French, the 12,924th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Incarnation is a French feminine noun meaning “embodiment (entity typifying an abstraction)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de s’incarner aux yeux des humains, pour un esprit, une déité, un dieu”.
What does incarnation mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineembodiment (entity typifying an abstraction)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de s’incarner aux yeux des humains, pour un esprit, une déité, un dieu. 2. Action par laquelle Dieu s’est fait homme, en restant dieu, dans la personne de Jésus-Christ. 3. Avatar. 4. Représentation concrète d’une idée ou d’une chose abstraite.
noun: 1. Dogme chrétien selon lequel Jésus est à la fois Dieu et humain.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of incarnation
- incarnations plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce incarnation?
- /ɛ̃.kaʁ.na.sjɔ̃/
- \ɛ̃.kaʁ.na.sjɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to incarnation
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is incarnation in French?
incarnation appears 4.1 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).