incise
\ɛ̃.siz\
The verdict
“incise” is uncommon French (frequency #83,040 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,040
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Proposition indépendante insérée dans une phrase, entre virgules ou tirets ou parenthèses, et qui forme un sens partiel et entre dans le sens total de la période ou d’un membre de la période. Exemp...
Corpus desk
Index FR-incise · incise · French
incise · rank #83,040 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,040
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inadéquats
Nearest frequency peer: inadéquats (-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 « incise »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- improductiv…
improductives
16,964 corpus weight
- improvisant
improvisant
16,963 corpus weight
- inadéquats
inadéquats
16,962 corpus weight
- incise
incise
16,961 corpus weight
- inclinations
inclinations
16,960 corpus weight
- incomparabl…
incomparablement
16,959 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « incise » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | incise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.siz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,040 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « incise » en français
Rare enough to double-check
incise is uncommon French at frequency #83,040 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.siz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for incise, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is incise, spelled I-N-C-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Proposition indépendante insérée dans une phrase, entre virgules ou tirets ou parenthèses, et qui forme un sens partiel et entre dans le sens total de la période ou d’un membre de la période. Exemple : Leurs chats, et ils en avaient beaucoup, avaient chacun son panier.
- 2Coupure, incision.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how incise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’originalité de Céline en effet, qui utilise l’incise pour signaler non seulement le discours direct, mais aussi le discours indirect libre.
Le président affectionne également les incises qui s’étirent en longueur comme les lacets d’un sentier de montagne, éloignant l’auditeur du sujet de départ, jusqu’à le perdre.
This word in other languages
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).