Ircam
\iʁ.kam\
The verdict
“Ircam” is uncommon French (frequency #85,832 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,832
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Centre de recherche et de création musicales, lié au Centre Pompidou, créé par Pierre Boulez en 1970.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ircam · Ircam · French
Ircam · rank #85,832 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,832
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH Isaure
Nearest frequency peer: Isaure (+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 « Ircam »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- intramuscul…
intramusculaire
14,172 corpus weight
- investigate…
investigateurs
14,171 corpus weight
- Ircam
Ircam
14,169 corpus weight
- Isaure
Isaure
14,168 corpus weight
- itu
itu
14,167 corpus weight
- jacking
jacking
14,166 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Ircam » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ircam |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \iʁ.kam\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #85,832 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ircam » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ircam is uncommon French at frequency #85,832 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \iʁ.kam\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Centre de recherche et de création musicales, lié au Centre Pompidou, créé par Pierre Boulez en 1970.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Ircam, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Ircam, spelled I-R-C-A-M.
Definition
- 1Centre de recherche et de création musicales, lié au Centre Pompidou, créé par Pierre Boulez en 1970.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ircam appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La "Partition du ciel et de l'enfer" (...)dans un premier temps écrit pour la 4X, est désormais transcrit pour la Station d'informatique musicale de l'Ircam.
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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