incendie criminel
The verdict
“incendie criminel” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Délit criminel consistant à mettre le feu volontairement au bien d'autrui; un incendie causé de cette façon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-incendie-criminel · incendie criminel · French
incendie criminel · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | incendie criminel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
incendie criminel is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Délit criminel consistant à mettre le feu volontairement au bien d'autrui; un incendie causé de cette façon.".
Zero misspellings are on record for incendie criminel in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is incendie criminel, spelled I-N-C-E-N-D-I-E- -C-R-I-M-I-N-E-L.
Definition
- 1Délit criminel consistant à mettre le feu volontairement au bien d'autrui; un incendie causé de cette façon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how incendie criminel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il cherche plutôt, en prouvant que des incendies criminels sont survenus dans le secteur où il habitait à une époque contemporaine à celle où son véhicule a été incendié, à démontrer que, selon la balance des probabilités, il n'est pas l'auteur de l'incendie de son véhicule.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.