incruste
French, noun
incruste is spelled I-N-C-R-U-S-T-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 36,757th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Incruste is a French masculine noun meaning “gatecrasher, parasite, bad penny” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of incruster. With an accent, incrusté is a different word: “past participle of incruster”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de s’incruster, de s’installer chez autrui sans être désiré”.
What does incruste mean in English?
noun
- 1
informalmasculinegatecrasher, parasite, bad penny
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of incruster
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de s’incruster, de s’installer chez autrui sans être désiré. 2. Personne qui s'incruste, pique-assiette.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of incruste
- incrustes plural
- incrustée feminine
- incrustés masculine plural
- incrustées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to incruste
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is incruste in French?
incruste appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).