incubation
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,760
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
incubation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action des volatiles qui couvent leurs œufs, de manière à les maintenir au chaud et à permettre le développement de l'embryon. Pronounced \ɛ̃.ky.ba.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with inhumation and inculpation.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | incubation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.ky.ba.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #26,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for incubation is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.ky.ba.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #26,760 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for incubation, with forms such as "icnubation", "incbuation", and "inccubation". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "inhumation", "inculpation", "incitation", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is incubation, spelled I-N-C-U-B-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action des volatiles qui couvent leurs œufs, de manière à les maintenir au chaud et à permettre le développement de l'embryon.
- 2Action humaine qui consiste à faire incuber des œufs par des moyens artificiels.
- 3Passage d'une culture dans une étuve bactériologique.
- 4Temps qui s’écoule entre le moment où l’organisme est affecté par une cause quelconque de maladie et l’éclosion de la maladie.
- 5Période de maturation entre une idée et sa concrétisation.
- 6Rituel de relation avec un dieu pour obtenir une guérison.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: icnubation,incbuation,inccubation,incuabtion,incubaiton,incubatino,incubationn,incubatoin,incubattion,incubbation,incubtaion,inncubation,inucbation,nicubation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for incubation
Misspelling Variants of "incubation"
Frequency rank: #26,760 in French
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