Which to use
“incriminer” and “incriminés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #36,900
- “incriminer” frequency rank
- #46,812
- “incriminés” frequency rank
- 83712
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | incriminer | incriminés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Accuser quelqu’un de crime ; imputer une chose à crime. | Participe passé masculin pluriel de incriminer. |
Same sound, different letters: incriminer vs incriminés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. incriminer and incriminés follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCCCVCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Homophone desk: incriminer vs incriminés
This is the hard kind. incriminer and incriminés are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.ne\) 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 83712, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
incriminer is recorded at frequency rank #36,900, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.ne\. incriminés is at rank #46,812, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.kʁi.mi.ne\.
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 83712, this pair ranks #14,326 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of incriminer vs incriminés
Shared letters: cimnr. Private to "incriminer": e. Private to "incriminés": sé.
"incriminer" · 10 letters · shape VCCCVCVCVC · "incriminés" · 10 letters · shape VCCCVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- incriminer ← icnriminer · inccriminer · incirminer · incriimner · incrimienr · incriminerr · incriminner · incriminre
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
"incriminer" and "incriminés" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "incriminer" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "incriminés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #14,326 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 #14,326 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.