inconscience

\ɛ̃.kɔ̃.sjɑ̃s\

/\ɛ̃.kɔ̃.sjɑ̃s\/ noun

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The verdict

“inconscience” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,818. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#29,818
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
18
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État de l’être qui ne possède aucune conscience de soi-même.

Corpus desk

Index FR-inconscience · inconscience · French

inconscience · rank #29,818 · 18 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #29,818
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 18 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH incompris

Nearest frequency peer: incompris (-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 « inconscience »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « inconscience » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

inconscience vs inconscient
83% similar
inconscience vs inconsciente
92% similar
inconscience vs inconscients
83% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for inconscience
PropertyValue
Headwordinconscience
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛ̃.kɔ̃.sjɑ̃s\
Letters12
Frequency rank#29,818
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « inconscience »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).inconsciencese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « incompris » (#29,817), « informant » (#29,819), « inclinés » (#29,816). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « inconscience » est au #29,818. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 18 spelling variants around inconscience (IPA \ɛ̃.kɔ̃.sjɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,818 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for inconscience, with forms such as "icnonscience", "incconscience", and "incnoscience". 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, "inconscient", "inconsciente", "inconscients", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No documented word history exists 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 inconscience, spelled I-N-C-O-N-S-C-I-E-N-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    État de l’être qui ne possède aucune conscience de soi-même.
  2. 2
    Caractère de ce qui se produit chez un être conscient, mais échappe à sa conscience.
  3. 3
    Absence ou abolition, réelle ou apparente, du sens moral, le sujet agissant comme s’il n’avait aucune notion de la valeur de ses actes.
  4. 4
    Absence de jugement, légèreté extrême.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how inconscience appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. J'appréhendais de retrouver ce moment terrible où je m'étais senti sombrer dans l'inconscience, tandis qu'en même temps je me débattais de toutes mes forces pour ne pas mourir.
  2. L'église ce dimanche, regorge de gens qui ne fréquentent qu'aux enterrements, aux bouts de l'an, à la fête patronale, des têtes de bois qui ne l'appellent que pour les derniers sacrements, et qu'il oindra, à l'agonie, dans l'inconscience quasi totale, absous néanmoins de toutes leurs fautes.

Synonyms

anesthésieaveuglementfolieignoranceimprudenceinattentioninconséquenceinsoucianceirréflexionje-m'en-foutismelégèreté

Antonyms

consciencelucidité

This word in other languages

unconsciousness(English)inconsciência(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • icnonscience
  • incconscience
  • incnoscience
  • inconcsience
  • inconnscience
  • inconsccience
  • inconsceince
  • inconsciecne
  • inconsciencce
  • inconscienec
  • inconsciennce
  • inconscinece
  • inconsicence
  • inconsscience
  • incosncience
  • innconscience
  • inocnscience
  • niconscience

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of inconscience - 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.

icnonscience2incconscience1incnoscience2inconcsience2inconnscience1inconsccience1inconsceince2inconsciecne2
Edit distance from "inconscience"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "inconscience"?
"inconscience" is spelled I-N-C-O-N-S-C-I-E-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.kɔ̃.sjɑ̃s\.
What does "inconscience" mean?
As a noun, "inconscience" means: État de l’être qui ne possède aucune conscience de soi-même.
What words are commonly confused with "inconscience"?
"inconscience" is commonly confused with "inconscient", "inconsciente", "inconscients". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "inconscience"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "inconscience" is \ɛ̃.kɔ̃.sjɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "inconscience" come from?
"inconscience" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "inconscience", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).

Finkielkraut18 variantsmulticolores18 variantsdénominateur18 variantsredoublement18 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list