irais

\i.ʁɛ\

/\i.ʁɛ\/ verb

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The verdict

“irais” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,200. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,200
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
16
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du conditionnel présent de aller.

Corpus desk

Index FR-irais · irais · French

irais · rank #7,200 · 6 variants · 16 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,200
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH intégrale

Nearest frequency peer: intégrale (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « irais »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « irais » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

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).

irais vs Iran
40% similar
irais vs Irak
40% similar
irais vs iris
80% similar

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

Key facts for irais
PropertyValue
Headwordirais
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\i.ʁɛ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#7,200
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « irais »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).iraisse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « intégrale » (#7,199), « Ironie » (#7,201), « intellectuels » (#7,198). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « irais » est au #7,200. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around irais (IPA \i.ʁɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,200 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for irais, with forms such as "iaris", "iraiss", and "irasi". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "Iran", "Irak", "iris", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is irais, spelled I-R-A-I-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier du conditionnel présent de aller.
  2. 2
    Deuxième personne du singulier du conditionnel présent de aller.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Le fric serait enfoui dans de la merde, tu irais le chercher avec les dents si telle était la règle du jeu ?

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • iaris
  • iraiss
  • irasi
  • irias
  • irrais
  • riais

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of irais - 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.

iaris2iraiss1irasi2irias2irrais1riais2
Edit distance from "irais"

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 "irais"?
"irais" is spelled I-R-A-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \i.ʁɛ\.
What does "irais" mean?
As a verb, "irais" means: Première personne du singulier du conditionnel présent de aller.
What words are commonly confused with "irais"?
"irais" is commonly confused with "Iran", "Irak", "iris". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "irais"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "irais" is \i.ʁɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "irais" come from?
"irais" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

wars6 variantsdiane6 variantspack6 variantsoubli6 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list