incompétents
\ɛ̃.kɔ̃.pe.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“incompétents” has 20 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,482. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,482
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de incompétent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-incompetents · incompétents · French
incompétents · rank #27,482 · 20 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,482
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH incompréhensi…
Nearest frequency peer: incompréhensibles (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « incompétents »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- impérialiste
impérialiste
72,522 corpus weight
- inchangé
inchangé
72,521 corpus weight
- incompréhen…
incompréhensibles
72,520 corpus weight
- incompétents
incompétents
72,519 corpus weight
- Indus
Indus
72,518 corpus weight
- infectée
infectée
72,517 corpus weight
What this shows « incompétents » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | incompétents |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.kɔ̃.pe.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #27,482 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « incompétents »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around incompétents (IPA \ɛ̃.kɔ̃.pe.tɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #27,482 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de incompétent.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for incompétents, with forms such as "icnompétents", "inccompétents", and "incmopétents". 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. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "incompétent", "incompétence", "incompétente", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 incompétents, spelled I-N-C-O-M-P-É-T-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de incompétent.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- icnompétents
- inccompétents
- incmopétents
- incommpétents
- incompetents
- incomppétents
- incomptéents
- incompéetnts
- incompétennts
- incompétenst
- incompétentss
- incompétentts
- incompétetns
- incompétnets
- incompéttents
- incoméptents
- incopmétents
- inncompétents
- inocmpétents
- nicompétents
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of incompétents - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "incompétents", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 here; floor ≥5).