inconscience

/\ɛ̃.kɔ̃.sjɑ̃s\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Frequency Rank

#29,818

in French word usage

Misspellings

18

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

inconscience is aFrenchnoun. It means: État de l’être qui ne possède aucune conscience de soi-même. Pronounced \ɛ̃.kɔ̃.sjɑ̃s\. Often confused with inconscient and inconsciente.

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)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of inconscience in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for inconscience is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.kɔ̃.sjɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #29,818 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 18 documented wrong-spelling variants for inconscience, with forms such as "icnonscience", "incconscience", and "incnoscience". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is inconscience, spelled I-N-C-O-N-S-C-I-E-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

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.

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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

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for inconscience

Misspelling Variants of "inconscience"

icnonscience12incconscience13incnoscience12inconcsience12inconnscience13inconsccience13inconsceince12inconsciecne12
Misspelling Variants of "inconscience"

Frequency rank: #29,818 in French

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 covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.