inciter
\ɛ̃.si.te\
The verdict
“inciter” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,726. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,726
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pousser, porter vivement à (une action, une attitude, un comportement, un état).
Corpus desk
Index FR-inciter · inciter · French
inciter · rank #8,726 · 10 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,726
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH incertitude
Nearest frequency peer: incertitude (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « inciter »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- impliqués
impliqués
91,277 corpus weight
- incertitude
incertitude
91,276 corpus weight
- inciter
inciter
91,275 corpus weight
- incontourna…
incontournable
91,274 corpus weight
- indemnité
indemnité
91,273 corpus weight
- jouez
jouez
91,272 corpus weight
What this shows « inciter » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inciter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.si.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,726 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « inciter »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around inciter (IPA \ɛ̃.si.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #8,726 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pousser, porter vivement à (une action, une attitude, un comportement, un état).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for inciter, with forms such as "icniter", "incciter", and "incietr". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "inter", "invite", "invités", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 inciter, spelled I-N-C-I-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Pousser, porter vivement à (une action, une attitude, un comportement, un état).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inciter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces pensers incitaient la Reine à la vengeance. Honte, dépit, courroux, son cœur employa tout ; Amour même, dit-on, fut de l’intelligence : De quoi ne vient-il point à bout ?
La vanité est chose aimable ; elle nous incite à soigner notre personne et notre tenue, à chercher à plaire, tous efforts dont l’orgueil sait bien se passer.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- icniter
- incciter
- incietr
- inciterr
- incitre
- incitter
- inctier
- inicter
- innciter
- niciter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of inciter - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).