irai

\i.ʁe\

/\i.ʁe\/ verb

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The verdict

“irai” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,994) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#5,994
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif futur simple de aller.

Corpus desk

Index FR-irai · irai · French

irai · rank #5,994 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,994
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH intégralité

Nearest frequency peer: intégralité (-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 « irai »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « irai » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

irai vs IRL
0% similar
irai vs IRM
0% similar
irai vs ire
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for irai
PropertyValue
Headwordirai
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\i.ʁe\
Letters4
Frequency rank#5,994
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « irai »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).iraise place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « intégralité » (#5,993), « japonaise » (#5,995), « interroger » (#5,992). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « irai » est au #5,994. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for irai is neighbouring look-alikes ("IRL", "IRM", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \i.ʁe\. Frequency #5,994 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif futur simple de aller.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for irai, with forms such as "iari", "iria", and "irrai". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "IRL", "IRM", "ire", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is irai, spelled I-R-A-I.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif futur simple de aller.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how irai appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le même geste drape les quatre sœurs, le même sourire et la même coiffure les raphaélisent — hélas! — et j’irai même jusqu’à dire que le petit amour est leur frère Benjamin…

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • iari
  • iria
  • irrai
  • riai

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of irai - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

iari2iria2irrai1riai2
Edit distance from "irai"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "irai"?
"irai" is spelled I-R-A-I. The IPA pronunciation is \i.ʁe\.
What does "irai" mean?
As a verb, "irai" means: Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif futur simple de aller.
What words are commonly confused with "irai"?
"irai" is commonly confused with "IRL", "IRM", "ire". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "irai"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "irai" is \i.ʁe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "irai" come from?
"irai" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "irai", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

lave#5,996dent#5,965âmes#5,939turc#5,936

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list