incompatibilité
\ɛ̃.kɔ̃.pa.ti.bi.li.te\
The verdict
“incompatibilité” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #25,693 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #25,693
- frequency rank, French
- 15
- letters
- 23
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Contrariété, opposition qui fait que deux personnes, que deux choses ne peuvent s’accorder, exister ensemble.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | incompatibilité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.kɔ̃.pa.ti.bi.li.te\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #25,693 |
| Misspellings tracked | 23 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “incompatibilité” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for incompatibilité is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.kɔ̃.pa.ti.bi.li.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #25,693 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 23 likely wrong-spelling variants for incompatibilité, with forms such as "icnompatibilité", "inccompatibilité", and "incmopatibilité". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is incompatibilité, spelled I-N-C-O-M-P-A-T-I-B-I-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Contrariété, opposition qui fait que deux personnes, que deux choses ne peuvent s’accorder, exister ensemble.
- 2Antipathie des caractères, des esprits.
- 3Impossibilité qu’il y a, selon les lois, que deux places soient remplies en même temps par la même personne.
- 4En probabilités, propriété que deux ou plusieurs événements soient deux à deux incompatibles, c'est-à-dire d'intersections vides.
- 5Défaut de compatibilité entre le greffon et l’hôte.
Antonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: icnompatibilité,inccompatibilité,incmopatibilité,incomaptibilité,incommpatibilité,incompaitbilité,incompatbiilité,incompatibbilité,incompatibiilté,incompatibilite,incompatibilitté,incompatibiliét,incompatibillité,incompatibiltié,incompatibliité,incompatiiblité,incompattibilité,incomppatibilité,incomptaibilité,incopmatibilité,inncompatibilité,inocmpatibilité,nicompatibilité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of incompatibilité - 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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Using “incompatibilité”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is I-N-C-O-M-P-A-T-I-B-I-L-I-T-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɛ̃.kɔ̃.pa.ti.bi.li.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.