ire
\iʁ\
The verdict
“ire” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,590) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,590
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Colère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ire · ire · French
ire · rank #23,590 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,590
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH irakienne
Nearest frequency peer: irakienne (-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 « ire »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- intensément
intensément
76,414 corpus weight
- io
io
76,413 corpus weight
- irakienne
irakienne
76,412 corpus weight
- ire
ire
76,411 corpus weight
- irrespectue…
irrespectueux
76,410 corpus weight
- jauge
jauge
76,408 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ire » 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 | ire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \iʁ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #23,590 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ire »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ire is neighbouring look-alikes ("it", "ix", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \iʁ\. Frequency #23,590 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Colère.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ire in our index, 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ire, spelled I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Colère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tony Hayward a assisté à une prestigieuse régate sur l’île de Wight, au sud de l’Angleterre suscitant l’ire de responsables politiques américains.
La promenade fut aménagée pour le bonheur des promeneurs : piste cyclable, crottoirs pour toutous à sa mémère, bancs nombreux et propres permettant de s'extasier devant l’ire des marées.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).