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irregular

Spanish, adjective/ireɡuˈlaɾ/

irregular is spelled I-R-R-E-G-U-L-A-R (9 letters) and appears 7.9 times per million words in written Spanish, the 8,486th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Irregular is a Spanish feminine adjective meaning “irregular, uneven, erratic, haphazard” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Que no sigue la regla”.

What does irregular mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    femininemasculineirregular, uneven, erratic, haphazard

  2. 2

    femininemasculinepatchy, spotty, jagged, ragged

  3. 3

    femininemasculinefitful

  4. 4

    femininemasculine(of a verb etc.) irregular

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Que no sigue la regla. 2. Que no está de acuerdo con ella. 3. Que ya no ocurre comúnmente o usualmente sino que ocurre rara vez. 4. Dícese del polígono o el poliedro que no son regulares.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of irregular

  • irregulares feminine masculine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce irregular?

  • /ireɡuˈlaɾ/
  • [i.re.ɣ̞uˈlaɾ]
  • [ireɣ̞uˈlaɾ]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to irregular

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is irregular in Spanish?

irregular appears 7.9 times per million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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