incendie criminel
The verdict
“incendie criminel” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Délit criminel consistant à mettre le feu volontairement au bien d'autrui; un incendie causé de cette façon.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | incendie criminel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “incendie criminel” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for incendie criminel is 17 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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.
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- The one correct French spelling is I-N-C-E-N-D-I-E- -C-R-I-M-I-N-E-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.