incorrectement
\ɛ̃.kɔ.ʁɛk.tə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“incorrectement” is uncommon French (frequency #69,919 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,919
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D'une manière incorrecte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-incorrectement · incorrectement · French
incorrectement · rank #69,919 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,919
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH impuissantes
Nearest frequency peer: impuissantes (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « incorrectement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- immigrations
immigrations
30,085 corpus weight
- improductif
improductif
30,084 corpus weight
- impuissantes
impuissantes
30,083 corpus weight
- incorrectem…
incorrectement
30,082 corpus weight
- indiscipliné
indiscipliné
30,081 corpus weight
- inhabitées
inhabitées
30,079 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « incorrectement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | incorrectement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.kɔ.ʁɛk.tə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #69,919 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « incorrectement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
incorrectement is uncommon French at frequency #69,919 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \ɛ̃.kɔ.ʁɛk.tə.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "D'une manière incorrecte.".
incorrectement has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is incorrectement, spelled I-N-C-O-R-R-E-C-T-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D'une manière incorrecte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how incorrectement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il parle, il écrit incorrectement.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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.
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