incertitude

/\ɛ̃.sɛʁ.ti.tyd\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,725

in French word usage

Misspellings

16

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

incertitude is aFrenchnoun. It means: État d’une personne irrésolue sur ce qu’elle doit faire, ou incertaine de ce qui doit arriver. Pronounced \ɛ̃.sɛʁ.ti.tyd\. It ranks #8,725 in French word frequency. Often confused with incertitudes.

Key facts for incertitude
PropertyValue
Headwordincertitude
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛ̃.sɛʁ.ti.tyd\
Letters11
Frequency rank#8,725
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of incertitude in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for incertitude is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.sɛʁ.ti.tyd\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,725 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for incertitude, with forms such as "icnertitude", "inccertitude", and "incerittude". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "incertitudes", 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 incertitude, spelled I-N-C-E-R-T-I-T-U-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    État d’une personne irrésolue sur ce qu’elle doit faire, ou incertaine de ce qui doit arriver.
  2. 2
    Ce qui est susceptible de doute.
  3. 3
    Ce qui n’est pas d’une nature bien arrêtée.
  4. 4
    Erreur attendue dans une mesure.
  5. 5
    Qualité exprimant la valeur moyenne, ou la valeur maximale, de l’erreur inhérente à la mise en œuvre d’un processus.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: icnertitude,inccertitude,incerittude,incerrtitude,incertitdue,incertittude,incertitudde,incertitued,incertiutde,incerttitude,incerttiude,incetritude,incretitude,inecrtitude,inncertitude,nicertitude

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for incertitude

Misspelling Variants of "incertitude"

icnertitude11inccertitude12incerittude11incerrtitude12incertitdue11incertittude12incertitudde12incertitued11
Misspelling Variants of "incertitude"

Frequency rank: #8,725 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "incertitude"?
"incertitude" is spelled I-N-C-E-R-T-I-T-U-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.sɛʁ.ti.tyd\.
What does "incertitude" mean?
As a noun, "incertitude" means: État d’une personne irrésolue sur ce qu’elle doit faire, ou incertaine de ce qui doit arriver.
What words are commonly confused with "incertitude"?
"incertitude" is commonly confused with "incertitudes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "incertitude"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "incertitude" is \ɛ̃.sɛʁ.ti.tyd\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "incertitude" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.