incitaient
\ɛ̃.si.tɛ\
The verdict
“incitaient” is uncommon French (frequency #99,218 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,218
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de inciter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-incitaient · incitaient · French
incitaient · rank #99,218 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,218
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inclinait
Nearest frequency peer: inclinait (+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 « incitaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- immaculées
immaculées
787 corpus weight
- immobilisent
immobilisent
786 corpus weight
- immémoriale
immémoriale
785 corpus weight
- incitaient
incitaient
783 corpus weight
- inclinait
inclinait
782 corpus weight
- incroyant
incroyant
780 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « incitaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | incitaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.si.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #99,218 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « incitaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
incitaient is uncommon French at frequency #99,218 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃.si.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de inciter.".
incitaient doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is incitaient, spelled I-N-C-I-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif 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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