inconscient
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inconscient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.kɔ̃.sjɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #8,410 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1État ou d’un acte qui, se produisant chez un sujet capable de se percevoir lui-même, échappe accidentellement ou normalement à sa perception.
- 2Qui n’est pas doté de conscience, qui n’est pas capable, accidentellement ou normalement, de se percevoir soi-même.
- 3Qui est irréfléchi.
- 4Qui n’a pas conscience de tel ou tel de ses actes.
- 5Dont 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"
Frequency rank: #8,410 in French
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