incarner
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,057
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
incarner is aFrenchverb. It means: Donner une existence concrète à une valeur abstraite. Pronounced \ɛ̃.kaʁ.ne\. Often confused with incliner and interner.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | incarner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.kaʁ.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,057 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for incarner is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.kaʁ.ne\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,057 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for incarner, with forms such as "icnarner", "inacrner", and "incanrer". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "incliner", "interner", "incarne", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is incarner, spelled I-N-C-A-R-N-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Donner une existence concrète à une valeur abstraite.
- 2Représenter un personnage comme s’il était réel, au théâtre ou au cinéma.
- 3Prendre un corps de chair, la forme humaine, en parlant de la divinité.
- 4Être représenté par une entité physique ou un concept matériel.
- 5Rentrer dans la chair.
- 6Représenter, rendre compte de.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: icnarner,inacrner,incanrer,incarenr,incarnerr,incarnner,incarnre,incarrner,inccarner,incraner,inncarner,nicarner
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for incarner
Misspelling Variants of "incarner"
Frequency rank: #14,057 in French
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