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From Middle French incorrect. By surface analysis, in- +‎ correct.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˌɪn.kəˈɹɛkt/
• (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˌɪn.kəˈɹekt/
• Hyphenation: in‧cor‧rect
• Rhymes: -ɛkt

incorrect (comparative more incorrect, superlative most incorrect)

1. Not correct; erroneous or wrong.
   He gave an incorrect answer to a simple question.
2. Faulty or defective.
   The computer crashed due to incorrect programming.
3. Inappropriate or improper.
   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

• correct
• right
• proper
• incorrection
• incorrectly
• incorrectness
• politically incorrect

erroneous

• Armenian: սխալ (hy) (sxal)
• Asturian: incorreutu
• Bashkir: яңылыш (yañılış)
• Belarusian: няпра́вільны (njaprávilʹny)
• Bulgarian: неправилен (bg) (nepravilen), неверен (bg) (neveren), неточен (bg) (netočen)
• Catalan: incorrecte (ca)
• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 不對, 不对 (bù duì), 不正確, 不正确 (bù zhèngquè)
• Czech: nesprávný (cs) m
• Dutch: incorrect (nl)
• Esperanto: malĝusta
• Finnish: virheellinen (fi)
• Galician: incorrecto (gl)
• Georgian: მცდარი (mcdari), არასწორი (arasc̣ori)
• German: inkorrekt (de)
• Hindi: त्रुटिपूर्ण (truṭipūrṇ)
• Hungarian: helytelen (hu), téves (hu), hibás (hu)
• Irish: mícheart
• Italian: errato (it), scorretto (it)
• Japanese: 間違った (ja) (まちがった, machigatta)
• Khmer: មិន​ត្រឹមត្រូវ (mɨn-trəm trəw)
• Korean: 그른 (ko) (geureun), 잘못된 (jalmotdoen)
• Latin: perperus
• Latvian: nepareizs, kļūdains
• Malay: tidak betul, tidak benar
• Māori: muhu
• Mongolian: буруу (mn) (buruu)
• Occitan: incorrècte
• Plautdietsch: faulsch
• Polish: nieprawidłowy (pl), niepoprawny (pl), błędny (pl)
• Portuguese: incorreto (pt)
• Romanian: incorect (ro)
• Russian: непра́вильный (ru) (neprávilʹnyj), неве́рный (ru) (nevérnyj)
• Slovak: nesprávny
• Spanish: incorrecto (es)
• Swedish: felaktig (sv), inkorrekt (sv)
• Thai: ผิด (th) (pìt)
• Tok Pisin: kranki
• Ukrainian: непра́вильний (neprávylʹnyj)
• Urdu: غلط (ġalat)
• Venetan: sbajà, sbaià
• Vietnamese: không chính xác (空正確), sai (vi) (差), không đúng
• Volapük: neverätik (vo)

incorrect (plural incorrects)

1. An item or response that is incorrect.
   • 2013, Julie Vargas, Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching:
     Having each day's rates of corrects and incorrects written next to the graph also makes it easier for you to check the ... If you also have students count problems incorrect, calling them “not yets,” or “learning opportunities,” or ...

Borrowed from Middle French incorrect, from Latin incorrēctus.

• IPA(key): /ˌɪŋ.kɔˈrɛkt/
• Hyphenation: in‧cor‧rect
• Rhymes: -ɛkt

incorrect (comparative incorrecter, superlative incorrectst)

1. incorrect

• fout
• incorrectheid

From in- +‎ correct.

• IPA(key): /ɛ̃.kɔ.ʁɛkt/
• Homophones: incorrecte, incorrects, incorrectes

incorrect (feminine incorrecte, masculine plural incorrects, feminine plural incorrectes)

1. (of language) incorrect (not correct)
   Synonyms: impropre, vicieux
   Near-synonym: abusif
   une prononciation incorrecte ― an incorrect pronunciation
   un terme incorrect ― an incorrect term
2. (of the execution of labor: a job, work of art, production, etc.) poorly made; made clumsily or carelessly; defective; shoddy, sloppy
   Synonyms: défectueux, mauvais
3. incorrect (socially unacceptable); rude, impolite
   Synonym: indélicat
   1. (of a person)
      Synonyms: discourtois, grossier, impoli, inconvenant
   2. disloyal
      Synonyms: déloyal, indélicat, irrégulier
   3. improper, inappropriate (of a behavior)
      Synonyms: déplacé, désinvolte, discourtois, grossier, impoli, incongru, inconvenant, indélicat

• incorrectement
• faux
• “incorrect”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012