incivilité
\ɛ̃.si.vi.li.te\
The verdict
“incivilité” is uncommon French (frequency #55,361 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,361
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manque de civilité, caractère incivil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-incivilite · incivilité · French
incivilité · rank #55,361 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,361
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH incassable
Nearest frequency peer: incassable (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “incivilité”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- impolitesse
impolitesse
44,643 corpus weight
- inaperçues
inaperçues
44,642 corpus weight
- incassable
incassable
44,641 corpus weight
- incivilité
incivilité
44,640 corpus weight
- incrustation
incrustation
44,639 corpus weight
- indécentes
indécentes
44,638 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “incivilité” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | incivilité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.si.vi.li.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #55,361 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “incivilité” se place dans la fréquence du français
Rare enough to double-check
incivilité is uncommon French at frequency #55,361 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.si.vi.li.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for incivilité in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is incivilité, spelled I-N-C-I-V-I-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Manque de civilité, caractère incivil.
- 2Action ou parole contraire à la civilité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how incivilité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son incivilité choque tout le monde.
Il y a de l’incivilité à répondre ainsi.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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