incurables
\ɛ̃.ky.ʁabl\
The verdict
“incurables” is uncommon French (frequency #50,290 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,290
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de incurable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-incurables · incurables · French
incurables · rank #50,290 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,290
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inconscientes
Nearest frequency peer: inconscientes (-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 « incurables »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- inclinées
inclinées
49,714 corpus weight
- incompréhen…
incompréhensions
49,713 corpus weight
- inconscient…
inconscientes
49,712 corpus weight
- incurables
incurables
49,711 corpus weight
- indiqua
indiqua
49,709 corpus weight
- indiscrète
indiscrète
49,708 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « incurables » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | incurables |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.ky.ʁabl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #50,290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « incurables » en français
Rare enough to double-check
incurables is uncommon French at frequency #50,290 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.ky.ʁabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de incurable.".
incurables has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is incurables, spelled I-N-C-U-R-A-B-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de incurable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how incurables appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Du côté des températures, une nette baisse s’annonce, ce qui ne devrait gêner que les incurables ronchons.
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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