inconscient

/\ɛ̃.kɔ̃.sjɑ̃\/ adj

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,410

in French word usage

Misspellings

17

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

inconscient is anFrenchadj. It means: État ou d’un acte qui, se produisant chez un sujet capable de se percevoir lui-même, échappe accidentellement ou normalement à sa perception. Pronounced \ɛ̃.kɔ̃.sjɑ̃\. It ranks #8,410 in French word frequency. Often confused with inconsciente and inconscients.

Key facts for inconscient
PropertyValue
Headwordinconscient
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ɛ̃.kɔ̃.sjɑ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#8,410
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for inconscient is 11 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.kɔ̃.sjɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,410 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for inconscient, with forms such as "icnonscient", "incconscient", and "incnoscient". 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, "inconsciente", "inconscients", "inconscience", 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 inconscient, spelled I-N-C-O-N-S-C-I-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    État ou d’un acte qui, se produisant chez un sujet capable de se percevoir lui-même, échappe accidentellement ou normalement à sa perception.
  2. 2
    Qui n’est pas doté de conscience, qui n’est pas capable, accidentellement ou normalement, de se percevoir soi-même.
  3. 3
    Qui est irréfléchi.
  4. 4
    Qui n’a pas conscience de tel ou tel de ses actes.
  5. 5
    Dont on n’a pas conscience, en parlant par exemple d’un sentiment ou d’un états d’esprit.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: icnonscient,incconscient,incnoscient,inconcsient,inconnscient,inconsccient,inconsceint,inconsciennt,inconscientt,inconscietn,inconscinet,inconsicent,inconsscient,incosncient,innconscient,inocnscient,niconscient

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for inconscient

Misspelling Variants of "inconscient"

icnonscient11incconscient12incnoscient11inconcsient11inconnscient12inconsccient12inconsceint11inconsciennt12
Misspelling Variants of "inconscient"

Frequency rank: #8,410 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "inconscient"?
"inconscient" is spelled I-N-C-O-N-S-C-I-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.kɔ̃.sjɑ̃\.
What does "inconscient" mean?
As an adj, "inconscient" means: État ou d’un acte qui, se produisant chez un sujet capable de se percevoir lui-même, échappe accidentellement ou normalement à sa perception.
What words are commonly confused with "inconscient"?
"inconscient" is commonly confused with "inconsciente", "inconscients", "inconscience". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "inconscient"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "inconscient" is \ɛ̃.kɔ̃.sjɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "inconscient" come from?
"inconscient" 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.