incruster
French, verb/ɛ̃.kʁys.te/
incruster is spelled I-N-C-R-U-S-T-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 36,757th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Incruster is a French verb meaning “to embed, to inlay” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Décorer une surface suivant un dessin gravé en creux avec des éléments d’une matière différente…”.
What does incruster mean in English?
verb
- 1
to embed, to inlay
- 2
informalto gatecrash, to stay (for a long time), to overstay
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Décorer une surface suivant un dessin gravé en creux avec des éléments d’une matière différente, ordinairement plus précieuse. 2. Remplacer une surface préalablement évidée par une autre composée de petits matériaux taillés. 3. Laisser une empreinte en creux dans une matière molle.
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 incruster
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- incrustant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- incrusté participle past
- incruste first-person indicative present
- incrustes indicative present second-person
- incrustons first-person indicative plural
- incrustez indicative plural present
- incrustent indicative plural present
- incrustais first-person imperfect indicative
- incrustait imperfect indicative singular
- incrustions first-person imperfect indicative
- incrustiez imperfect indicative plural
- incrustaient imperfect indicative plural
- incrustai first-person historic indicative
- incrustas historic indicative past
- incrusta historic indicative past
- incrustâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce incruster?
- /ɛ̃.kʁys.te/
- \ɛ̃.kʁys.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to incruster
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is incruster in French?
incruster 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).