Which to use
“incrustée” and “incruster” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #47,961
- “incrustée” frequency rank
- #36,901
- “incruster” frequency rank
- 84862
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | incrustée | incruster |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de incruster. | Décorer une surface suivant un dessin gravé en creux avec des éléments d’une matière différente, ordinairement plus précieuse. |
Same sound, different letters: incrustée vs incruster
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - incrustée and incruster
This is the hard kind. incrustée and incruster are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.kʁys.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 84862, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
incrustée is recorded at frequency rank #47,961, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.kʁys.te\. incruster is at rank #36,901, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.kʁys.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 84862, this pair ranks #12,271 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of incrustée vs incruster
Shared letters: ceinrstu. Private to "incrustée": é. Private to "incruster": -.
"incrustée" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCCVV · "incruster" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- incruster ← icnruster · inccruster · incrruster · incrsuter · incrusetr · incrusster · incrusterr · incrustre
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "incrustée" for "incruster" ever safe?
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Useful next steps
"incrustée" and "incruster" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "incrustée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "incruster" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #12,271 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "incrustée" and "incruster" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "incruste vs incrustée". 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 #12,271 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.