Which to use
“incorporée” and “incorporer” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #39,350
- “incorporée” frequency rank
- #24,246
- “incorporer” frequency rank
- 63596
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | incorporée | incorporer |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de incorporer. | Mêler, unir ensemble certaines matières, et en faire un corps qui ait quelque consistance. |
Same sound, different letters: incorporée vs incorporer
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. incorporée (VCCVCCVCVV) and incorporer (VCCVCCVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Ear matches; page differs - incorporée and incorporer
This is the hard kind. incorporée and incorporer are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.kɔʁ.pɔ.ʁe\) 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 63596, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
incorporée is recorded at frequency rank #39,350, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.kɔʁ.pɔ.ʁe\. incorporer is at rank #24,246, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.kɔʁ.pɔ.ʁe\.
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 63596, this pair ranks #81,195 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of incorporée vs incorporer
Shared letters: ceinopr. Private to "incorporée": é. Private to "incorporer": -.
"incorporée" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVV · "incorporer" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- incorporer ← icnorporer · inccorporer · incoprorer · incoroprer · incorpoerr · incorporerr · incorporre · incorporrer
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "incorporée" and "incorporer" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "incorporée" vs "incorporer" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "incorporée" / "incorporer". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "incorporée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "incorporer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #81,195 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "incorporée" and "incorporer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "incorporée vs incorporées". 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 #81,195 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.