incarné
French, adjective
incarné is spelled I-N-C-A-R-N-É (7 letters) and appears 7.6 times per million words in written French, the 8,212th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Incarné is a French adjective meaning “incarnate, embodied, personified” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of incarner. Without its accent, incarne is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui semble avoir pris une forme charnelle”.
What does incarné mean in English?
adjective
- 1
incarnate, embodied, personified
Near-synonym: personnifié
- 2
ingrown
un ongle incarné
verb
- 1
past participle of incarner
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui semble avoir pris une forme charnelle. 2. Qualifie un ongle entré dans les chairs.
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 incarné
- incarnée feminine
- incarnés masculine plural
- incarnées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to incarné
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is incarné in French?
incarné appears 7.6 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).