incivisme
\ɛ̃.si.vism\
The verdict
“incivisme” is uncommon French (frequency #78,512 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,512
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Défaut de civisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-incivisme · incivisme · French
incivisme · rank #78,512 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,512
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH incisifs
Nearest frequency peer: incisifs (-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 « incivisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ignorions
ignorions
21,492 corpus weight
- inanimée
inanimée
21,491 corpus weight
- incisifs
incisifs
21,490 corpus weight
- incivisme
incivisme
21,489 corpus weight
- incorporent
incorporent
21,488 corpus weight
- incroyants
incroyants
21,487 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « incivisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | incivisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.si.vism\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #78,512 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « incivisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
incivisme is uncommon French at frequency #78,512 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.si.vism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Défaut de civisme.".
incivisme has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 incivisme, spelled I-N-C-I-V-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Défaut de civisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how incivisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 1980, l’Italie est d'ailleurs déjà celui des pays du Marché commun qui a les plus graves problèmes d'environnement : des égouts de Naples aux pollutions chimiques de la plaine du Pô, la péninsule exprime son incivisme glorieux. Dans une civilisation industrielle avancée, le chacun pour sa peau se paye au prix fort.
Mais est-ce sa faute à elle si Gobee.bike, le chinois de Hongkong, qui proposait 2 000 vélos en libre-service à Paris, a aussi plié les gaules ? Il n’a pas résisté à l’incivisme parisien.
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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