incrustent
\ɛ̃.kʁyst\
The verdict
“incrustent” is uncommon French (frequency #84,895 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,895
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de incruster.
Corpus desk
Index FR-incrustent · incrustent · French
incrustent · rank #84,895 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,895
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inconsistance
Nearest frequency peer: inconsistance (-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 « incrustent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- inclinaisons
inclinaisons
15,109 corpus weight
- incognita
incognita
15,108 corpus weight
- inconsistan…
inconsistance
15,107 corpus weight
- incrustent
incrustent
15,106 corpus weight
- indécises
indécises
15,105 corpus weight
- inextricabl…
inextricables
15,104 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « incrustent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | incrustent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.kʁyst\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #84,895 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « incrustent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
incrustent is uncommon French at frequency #84,895 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃.kʁyst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for incrustent, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 incrustent, spelled I-N-C-R-U-S-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de incruster.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de incruster.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how incrustent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il ferme les yeux et, à cet instant, au crépuscule de son existence, un torrent de souvenirs déferle en lui. Des tranches de vie, éphémères, s’incrustent une dernière fois dans le cours de ses pensées, avant de se perdre dans les méandres de l’oubli.
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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