incita
\ɛ̃.si.ta\
The verdict
“incita” is uncommon French (frequency #71,599 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,599
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de inciter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-incita · incita · French
incita · rank #71,599 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,599
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH incinérés
Nearest frequency peer: incinérés (-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 « incita »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- inadaptation
inadaptation
28,405 corpus weight
- inaugurent
inaugurent
28,404 corpus weight
- incinérés
incinérés
28,403 corpus weight
- incita
incita
28,402 corpus weight
- inciterait
inciterait
28,401 corpus weight
- inclusiveme…
inclusivement
28,400 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « incita » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | incita |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.si.ta\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,599 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « incita » en français
Rare enough to double-check
incita is uncommon French at frequency #71,599 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃.si.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de inciter.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for incita, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is incita, spelled I-N-C-I-T-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de inciter.
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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