incidente
\ɛ̃.si.dɑ̃t\
The verdict
“incidente” is uncommon French (frequency #63,836 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,836
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Proposition qui est insérée dans une proposition dont elle fait partie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-incidente · incidente · French
incidente · rank #63,836 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,836
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inbox
Nearest frequency peer: inbox (-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 « incidente »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- impromptue
impromptue
36,168 corpus weight
- inavouables
inavouables
36,167 corpus weight
- inbox
inbox
36,166 corpus weight
- incidente
incidente
36,165 corpus weight
- incitatives
incitatives
36,164 corpus weight
- incorrectes
incorrectes
36,163 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « incidente » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | incidente |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.si.dɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « incidente » en français
Rare enough to double-check
incidente is uncommon French at frequency #63,836 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.si.dɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Proposition qui est insérée dans une proposition dont elle fait partie.".
incidente doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is incidente, spelled I-N-C-I-D-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Proposition qui est insérée dans une proposition dont elle fait partie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how incidente appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bossuet, dans ses manuscrits, a raturé des incidentes riches de sève afin que l’esprit de ses auditeurs ne fût pas distrait des idées maîtresses auxquelles il s’attachait.
Pour que le texte soit clair, il faut dans toute la mesure du possible écrire des phrases simples, en évitant tout particulièrement la multiplication de subordonnées et d’incidentes emboîtées, les doubles négations et les accumulations de substantifs.
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.
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