Which to use
“inciter” and “incités” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #8,726
- “inciter” frequency rank
- #43,989
- “incités” frequency rank
- 52715
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | inciter | incités |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Pousser, porter vivement à (une action, une attitude, un comportement, un état). | Participe passé masculin pluriel de inciter. |
Same sound, different letters: inciter vs incités
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. inciter and incités follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Same sound, different spelling - inciter / incités
This is the hard kind. inciter and incités are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.si.te\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 52715, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
inciter is recorded at frequency rank #8,726, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.si.te\. incités is at rank #43,989, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.si.te\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 52715, this pair ranks #145,791 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of inciter vs incités
Shared letters: cint. Private to "inciter": er. Private to "incités": sé.
"inciter" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC · "incités" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- inciter ← icniter · incciter · incietr · inciterr · incitre · incitter · inctier · inicter
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "inciter" for "incités" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "inciter" or "incités" show up more?
Useful next steps
"inciter" and "incités" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "inciter" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "incités" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #145,791 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "inciter" and "incités" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "inaptes vs incités". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #145,791 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.