irregular
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,539
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
irregular is anSpanishadj. It means: Que no sigue la regla. Pronounced [ireɣ̞uˈlaɾ]. It ranks #8,539 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with irregulares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | irregular |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ireɣ̞uˈlaɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #8,539 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for irregular is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ireɣ̞uˈlaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,539 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for irregular, with forms such as "iregular", "irergular", and "irreggular". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "irregulares", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is irregular, spelled I-R-R-E-G-U-L-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que no sigue la regla.
- 2Que no está de acuerdo con ella.
- 3Que ya no ocurre comúnmente o usualmente sino que ocurre rara vez.
- 4Dícese del polígono o el poliedro que no son regulares.
- 5Aplícase a la palabra derivada, que no se ajusta en su formación a la regla general seguida por las de su clase.
- 6Dícese del verbo que se conjuga alterando ya sea las letras radicales de su infinitivo (poder-pude), las terminaciones propias de la conjugación regular o ambas (ser-fuimos).
- 7Dícese de las tropas que se reclutan transitoriamente, combaten y se organizan sin sujeción a reglamentos determinados u oficiales.
- 8Equinodermos equinoideos que, como el erizo de mar, tienen simetría bilateral, boca y ano recíprocamente excéntricos y sus partes radiales en forma de roseta.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: iregular,irergular,irreggular,irregluar,irregualr,irregularr,irregullar,irregulra,irreuglar,irrgeular,riregular
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for irregular
Misspelling Variants of "irregular"
Frequency rank: #8,539 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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