incendie
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,826
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
incendie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Réaction de combustion, feu non maîtrisé dans le temps et l’espace conduisant à l’embrasement d’un édifice, d’une maison, d’une forêt, etc. Pronounced \ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di\. It ranks #2,826 in French word frequency. Often confused with incendies and incendiée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | incendie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,826 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for incendie is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.sɑ̃.di\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,826 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for incendie, with forms such as "icnendie", "inccendie", and "incednie". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "incendies", "incendiée", "incendier", 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 incendie, spelled I-N-C-E-N-D-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Réaction de combustion, feu non maîtrisé dans le temps et l’espace conduisant à l’embrasement d’un édifice, d’une maison, d’une forêt, etc.
- 2Lumière rougeoyante qui illumine un vaste espace.
- 3Vague de protestation.
- 4Ravage qui va se dispersant
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: icnendie,inccendie,incednie,incenddie,incendei,incenide,incenndie,incnedie,inecndie,inncendie,nicendie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for incendie
Misspelling Variants of "incendie"
Frequency rank: #2,826 in French
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