irascible
\i.ʁa.sibl\
The verdict
“irascible” is uncommon French (frequency #55,378 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,378
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui s’emporte facilement, qui est prompt à se mettre en colère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-irascible · irascible · French
irascible · rank #55,378 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,378
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH ioniques
Nearest frequency peer: ioniques (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « irascible »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- interreligi…
interreligieux
44,626 corpus weight
- interrompant
interrompant
44,625 corpus weight
- ioniques
ioniques
44,624 corpus weight
- irascible
irascible
44,623 corpus weight
- irréconcili…
irréconciliables
44,621 corpus weight
- Issoudun
Issoudun
44,620 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « irascible » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | irascible |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.ʁa.sibl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #55,378 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « irascible » en français
Rare enough to double-check
irascible is uncommon French at frequency #55,378 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \i.ʁa.sibl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for irascible in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is irascible, spelled I-R-A-S-C-I-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui s’emporte facilement, qui est prompt à se mettre en colère.
- 2Qualifie la faculté par laquelle l’âme se porte à surmonter les difficultés qu’elle rencontre dans la poursuite du bien ou dans la fuite du mal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how irascible appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il était visible, à la contenance du maître, qu’il était d’un caractère franc mais impétueux et irascible.
Encore un mot, j’ai le malheur d’être irascible; il est possible que vous et moi nous cessions de nous parler.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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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