incriminant
\ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nɑ̃\
The verdict
“incriminant” is uncommon French (frequency #67,598 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,598
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui incrimine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-incriminant · incriminant · French
incriminant · rank #67,598 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,598
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH increvable
Nearest frequency peer: increvable (-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 « incriminant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- incapacités
incapacités
32,406 corpus weight
- incarcérées
incarcérées
32,405 corpus weight
- increvable
increvable
32,404 corpus weight
- incriminant
incriminant
32,403 corpus weight
- incrustées
incrustées
32,402 corpus weight
- Indira
Indira
32,401 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « incriminant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | incriminant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #67,598 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « incriminant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
incriminant is uncommon French at frequency #67,598 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.nɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui incrimine.".
No misspelling variants are generated for incriminant in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is incriminant, spelled I-N-C-R-I-M-I-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui incrimine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how incriminant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sans quoi, la discussion incriminante entre Raynald Desjardins et Vittorio Mirarchi ne sera pas admissible devant la cour.
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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