IRM
\i.ɛ.ʁɛm\
The verdict
“IRM” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,979) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,979
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Technique d’imagerie médicale permettant l’analyse fine du corps humain par l’action d’un champ magnétique et d’ondes radio.
Corpus desk
Index FR-irm · IRM · French
IRM · rank #17,979 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,979
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH ions
Nearest frequency peer: ions (-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 « IRM »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- inconsciente
inconsciente
82,025 corpus weight
- instantanée
instantanée
82,024 corpus weight
- ions
ions
82,023 corpus weight
- IRM
IRM
82,022 corpus weight
- irons
irons
82,021 corpus weight
- justifiant
justifiant
82,019 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « IRM » 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 | IRM |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.ɛ.ʁɛm\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #17,979 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « IRM »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for IRM is neighbouring look-alikes ("it", "ix", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \i.ɛ.ʁɛm\. Frequency #17,979 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Technique d’imagerie médicale permettant l’analyse fine du corps humain par l’action d’un champ magnétique et d’ondes radio.".
Zero misspellings are on record for IRM in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is IRM, spelled I-R-M.
Definition
- 1Technique d’imagerie médicale permettant l’analyse fine du corps humain par l’action d’un champ magnétique et d’ondes radio.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how IRM appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle a ajouté que Alexeï Navalny avait été conduit mercredi soir dans un « hôpital public » où il a pu effectuer un examen IRM, sans qu’un diagnostic ne lui soit toutefois transmis.
Finalement, l’exposition parvient à être captivante, alors qu’on nous parle d’IRM, de carcinome ou de lymphocytes T.
Synonyms
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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