incontinuité
\ɛ̃.kɔ̃.ti.nɥi.te\
The verdict
“incontinuité” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Défaut de continuité, qualité de ce qui est incontinu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-incontinuite · incontinuité · French
incontinuité · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | incontinuité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.kɔ̃.ti.nɥi.te\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « incontinuité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
incontinuité is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.kɔ̃.ti.nɥi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Défaut de continuité, qualité de ce qui est incontinu.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for incontinuité, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is incontinuité, spelled I-N-C-O-N-T-I-N-U-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Défaut de continuité, qualité de ce qui est incontinu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how incontinuité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce sont des étincelles dont l’incontinuité ne peut pas profondément impressionner.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.