incombait
\ɛ̃.kɔ̃.bɛ\
The verdict
“incombait” is uncommon French (frequency #74,888 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,888
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de incomber.
Corpus desk
Index FR-incombait · incombait · French
incombait · rank #74,888 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,888
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inaugurera
Nearest frequency peer: inaugurera (-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 « incombait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- immunisée
immunisée
25,116 corpus weight
- immunodéfic…
immunodéficience
25,115 corpus weight
- inaugurera
inaugurera
25,114 corpus weight
- incombait
incombait
25,113 corpus weight
- inconsidérés
inconsidérés
25,112 corpus weight
- indemnisées
indemnisées
25,111 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « incombait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | incombait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.kɔ̃.bɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,888 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « incombait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
incombait is uncommon French at frequency #74,888 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃.kɔ̃.bɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de incomber.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for incombait in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is incombait, spelled I-N-C-O-M-B-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de incomber.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how incombait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il lui incombait de la décalomnier, astreint à tout.
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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