ira
\i.ʁa\
The verdict
“ira” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #2,932) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #2,932
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif futur simple de aller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ira · ira · French
ira · rank #2,932 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,932
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inscription
Nearest frequency peer: inscription (-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 « ira »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- fêtes
fêtes
97,072 corpus weight
- henry
henry
97,071 corpus weight
- inscription
inscription
97,070 corpus weight
- ira
ira
97,069 corpus weight
- libres
libres
97,068 corpus weight
- lèvres
lèvres
97,067 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ira » 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 | ira |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \i.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #2,932 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ira »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ira is neighbouring look-alikes ("it", "ix", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \i.ʁa\. Frequency #2,932 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif futur simple de aller.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ira, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ira, spelled I-R-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif futur simple de aller.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ira appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oui certes, un fils de Johann-Christoph, le glorieux oncle de Jean-Sébastien, ira fabriquer des orgues en Suède ; un autre, d’Erfurt, émigrera à Hambourg, puis à Rotterdam et finalement en Angleterre.
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.
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