incommode
\ɛ̃.kɔ.mɔd\
The verdict
“incommode” is uncommon French (frequency #69,156 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,156
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui n’est pas commode, dont l’usage cause la gêne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-incommode · incommode · French
incommode · rank #69,156 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,156
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH immortalise
Nearest frequency peer: immortalise (-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 « incommode »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ilham
ilham
30,848 corpus weight
- imitez
imitez
30,847 corpus weight
- immortalise
immortalise
30,846 corpus weight
- incommode
incommode
30,845 corpus weight
- industriali…
industrialisée
30,844 corpus weight
- indépendant…
indépendantisme
30,843 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « incommode » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | incommode |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.kɔ.mɔd\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,156 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « incommode » en français
Rare enough to double-check
incommode is uncommon French at frequency #69,156 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.kɔ.mɔd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for incommode, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented 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 incommode, spelled I-N-C-O-M-M-O-D-E.
Definition
- 1Qui n’est pas commode, dont l’usage cause la gêne.
- 2Qui cause du malaise, de la fatigue, de l’ennui.
- 3Qui est importun, en parlant d’une personne ou d’un animal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how incommode appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le toit est plat ; l’escalier est en bois, très grossier et très incommode.
Elles apitoyaient : leurs vêtements incommodes, effrangés par les broussailles, salis de terre rouge, étaient indignes d’épouses de prêtres.
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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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).