Word.ws English Dictionary

incase

incase is the alternative spelling of encase.

incase is the misspelling of in case.

Meaning of encase

Verb

encase (third-person singular simple present encases, present participle encasing, simple past and past participle encased)

  1. To enclose, as in a case.
    • They always appeared to me like asses who gladly incase themselves in lions' skins and cheer themselves with the idea that all the world about them consists also of similarly disguised asses.1918, Wilhelm Muehlon, The vandal of Europe

Meaning of in case

Conjunction

in case

  1. To allow for the possibility that.
    • I'll take an umbrella, in case it rains.
    Synonyms:
    in the event
  2. (Canada, US) If.
    • In case you need me, I'll be home all day.

Forms of incase

third-person singular presentincases
present participleincasing
past participleincased
pastincased

Origin of incase

From in- + case.

Phrases with incase

Questions about incase

What is incase the alternative spelling of?
Incase is the alternative spelling of encase.

Words near incase in the dictionary

  1. incarns
  2. incars
  3. incarvillea
  4. incarvilleas
  5. incas
  6. incase
  7. incase of
  8. incased
  9. incasement
  10. incasements
  11. incases

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: incase (page history and authors); encase (page history and authors); in case (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “incase.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/incase. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.