incassable

\ɛ̃.ka.sabl\

/\ɛ̃.ka.sabl\/ adj

The verdict

“incassable” is uncommon French (frequency #55,360 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#55,360
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui ne peut être cassé ou qui ne l’est que difficilement.

Corpus desk

Index FR-incassable · incassable · French

incassable · rank #55,360 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #55,360
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH inaperçues

Nearest frequency peer: inaperçues (-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 « incassable »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « incassable » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for incassable
PropertyValue
Headwordincassable
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ɛ̃.ka.sabl\
Letters10
Frequency rank#55,360
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « incassable » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).incassabletombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « inaperçues » (#55,359), « incivilité » (#55,361), « impolitesse » (#55,358). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « incassable » est au #55,360. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

incassable is uncommon French at frequency #55,360 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.ka.sabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No misspelling variants are generated for incassable in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

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 incassable, spelled I-N-C-A-S-S-A-B-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui ne peut être cassé ou qui ne l’est que difficilement.
  2. 2
    Se dit d’un jugement qui ne peut pas faire l’objet d’un recours en cassation.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how incassable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il ne faut pas confondre la dureté du diamant avec la propriété qu’il possède, comme tous les corps, d’être cassable. Les anciens croyaient le diamant incassable ; c'est une erreur.
  2. L’Artiste a aussi inventé une calèche de campagne, à laquelle il joindra l’essieu incassable, qu’on ne graisse qu’une fois le mois.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "incassable"?
"incassable" is spelled I-N-C-A-S-S-A-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.ka.sabl\.
What does "incassable" mean?
As an adjective, "incassable" means: Qui ne peut être cassé ou qui ne l’est que difficilement.
How do you pronounce "incassable"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "incassable" is \ɛ̃.ka.sabl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "incassable", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list