ir
\iɾ\
The verdict
“ir” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,065) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,065
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aller, se déplacer jusqu'à un endroit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ir · ir · French
ir · rank #14,065 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,065
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH ion
Nearest frequency peer: ion (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « ir »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- intervenant
intervenant
85,939 corpus weight
- intrusion
intrusion
85,938 corpus weight
- ion
ion
85,937 corpus weight
- ir
ir
85,936 corpus weight
- ivresse
ivresse
85,935 corpus weight
- Jackie
Jackie
85,934 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ir » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \iɾ\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #14,065 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ir »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ir is neighbouring look-alikes ("it", "ix", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \iɾ\. Frequency #14,065 among 3,561 “I” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for ir in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "it", "ix", "iu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ir, spelled I-R.
Definition
- 1Aller, se déplacer jusqu'à un endroit.
- 2(ir a) Aller (utilisé comme semi-auxiliaire).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hoy vamos a ver una película.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.