incurable
\ɛ̃.ky.ʁabl\
The verdict
“incurable” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,365. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,365
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui ne peut être guéri.
Corpus desk
Index FR-incurable · incurable · French
incurable · rank #25,365 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,365
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH incultes
Nearest frequency peer: incultes (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « incurable »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- inachevé
inachevé
74,639 corpus weight
- inactivité
inactivité
74,638 corpus weight
- incultes
incultes
74,637 corpus weight
- incurable
incurable
74,636 corpus weight
- indéterminé
indéterminé
74,635 corpus weight
- interférence
interférence
74,634 corpus weight
What this shows « incurable » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | incurable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.ky.ʁabl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #25,365 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « incurable »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around incurable (IPA \ɛ̃.ky.ʁabl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #25,365 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for incurable, with forms such as "icnurable", "inccurable", and "incruable". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "ingérable", "incapable", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 incurable, spelled I-N-C-U-R-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui ne peut être guéri.
- 2Incorrigible ; indécrottable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how incurable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si c'eût été l’œil droit, dit-il, je l'aurais guéri ; mais les plaies de l’œil gauche sont incurables.
Ma chère madame Cibot, répondit le docteur, il meurt de la maladie des portiers… son étiolement général annonce une incurable viciation du sang.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- icnurable
- inccurable
- incruable
- incuarble
- incurabble
- incurabel
- incurablle
- incuralbe
- incurbale
- incurrable
- inncurable
- inucrable
- nicurable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of incurable - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "incurable", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).