Which to use
“incorrect” and “incorrecte” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #26,406
- “incorrect” frequency rank
- #34,129
- “incorrecte” frequency rank
- 60535
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | incorrect | incorrecte |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui n’est pas correct. | Féminin singulier de incorrect. |
Same sound, different letters: incorrect vs incorrecte
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - incorrect and incorrecte
This is the hard kind. incorrect and incorrecte are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.kɔ.ʁɛkt\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “incorrect” sits inside “incorrecte”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 60535, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
incorrect is recorded at frequency rank #26,406, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɛ̃.kɔ.ʁɛkt\. incorrecte is at rank #34,129, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɛ̃.kɔ.ʁɛkt\.
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 60535, this pair ranks #97,109 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of incorrect vs incorrecte
Shared letters: ceinort. Private to "incorrect": -. Private to "incorrecte": -.
"incorrect" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVCC · "incorrecte" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- incorrect ← icnorrect · inccorrect · incorect · incorerct · incorrcet · incorrecct · incorrectt · incorretc
- incorrecte ← icnorrecte · inccorrecte · incorecte · incorercte · incorrcete · incorreccte · incorrecet · incorrectte
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "incorrect" and "incorrecte" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "incorrect" or "incorrecte" show up more?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "incorrect" / "incorrecte". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "incorrect" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "incorrecte" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #97,109 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- 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 #97,109 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.