IRD
The verdict
“IRD” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #48,611) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #48,611
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Établissement public à caractère scientifique et technologique (EPST) français, sous la tutelle des ministères chargés de la Recherche et de la Coopération, remplaçant l’Office de la recherche scie...
Corpus desk
Index FR-ird · IRD · French
IRD · rank #48,611 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,611
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH IPA
Nearest frequency peer: IPA (-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 « IRD »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- intriguant
intriguant
51,393 corpus weight
- invoquées
invoquées
51,392 corpus weight
- IPA
IPA
51,391 corpus weight
- IRD
IRD
51,390 corpus weight
- irritabilité
irritabilité
51,389 corpus weight
- isoloir
isoloir
51,387 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « IRD » 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 | IRD |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #48,611 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « IRD »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for IRD is neighbouring look-alikes ("it", "ix", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #48,611 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Établissement public à caractère scientifique et technologique (EPST) français, sous la tutelle des ministères chargés de la Recherche et de la Coopération, remplaçant l’Office de la recherche scie...".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for IRD, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "it", "ix", "iu", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is IRD, spelled I-R-D.
Definition
- 1Établissement public à caractère scientifique et technologique (EPST) français, sous la tutelle des ministères chargés de la Recherche et de la Coopération, remplaçant l’Office de la recherche scientifique et technique outre-mer (ORSTOM).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how IRD appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Valérie Verdier, PDG de l’IRD, interviendra devant l’Assemblée des Membres de l’IUCN, le 9 septembre après-midi.
L’IRD a pour mission de développer des projets scientifiques centrés sur les relations entre l’homme et son environnement dans la zone intertropicale.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).