incartade
\ɛ̃.kaʁ.tad\
The verdict
“incartade” is uncommon French (frequency #76,679 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,679
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Extravagance, folie que fait une personne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-incartade · incartade · French
incartade · rank #76,679 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,679
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inabordable
Nearest frequency peer: inabordable (-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 « incartade »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- improvisate…
improvisateur
23,325 corpus weight
- impulsée
impulsée
23,324 corpus weight
- inabordable
inabordable
23,323 corpus weight
- incartade
incartade
23,322 corpus weight
- incorporell…
incorporelles
23,321 corpus weight
- indemnise
indemnise
23,320 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « incartade » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | incartade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.kaʁ.tad\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,679 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « incartade » en français
Rare enough to double-check
incartade is uncommon French at frequency #76,679 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.kaʁ.tad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
incartade doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is incartade, spelled I-N-C-A-R-T-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Extravagance, folie que fait une personne.
- 2Brusque sortie verbale, inconsidérée et blessante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how incartade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a fait mille incartades.
Il fait chaque jour de nouvelles incartades.
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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