incitative
\ɛ̃.si.ta.tiv\
The verdict
“incitative” is uncommon French (frequency #62,363 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,363
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de incitatif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-incitative · incitative · French
incitative · rank #62,363 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,363
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH incarcérer
Nearest frequency peer: incarcérer (-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 « incitative »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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inanité
37,641 corpus weight
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inaugurés
37,640 corpus weight
- incarcérer
incarcérer
37,639 corpus weight
- incitative
incitative
37,638 corpus weight
- infaillibil…
infaillibilité
37,637 corpus weight
- inhumations
inhumations
37,636 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « incitative » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | incitative |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.si.ta.tiv\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #62,363 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « incitative » en français
Rare enough to double-check
incitative is uncommon French at frequency #62,363 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.si.ta.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de incitatif.".
No misspelling variants are generated for incitative in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 incitative, spelled I-N-C-I-T-A-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de incitatif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how incitative appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après un bilan de Marie-Josée Villautreix, 4ᵉ vice-présidente de la Communauté de communes de l’île d’Oléron (CDC) en charge du développement durable et de la Régie Oléron déchets, des réactions se sont fait entendre sur la redevance incitative.
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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