IRM
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,979
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
IRM is aFrenchnoun. It means: Technique d’imagerie médicale permettant l’analyse fine du corps humain par l’action d’un champ magnétique et d’ondes radio. Pronounced \i.ɛ.ʁɛm\. Often confused with it and ix.
| 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) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for IRM is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \i.ɛ.ʁɛm\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,979 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Technique d’imagerie médicale permettant l’analyse fine du corps humain par l’action d’un champ magnétique et d’ondes radio.".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for IRM in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "it", "ix", "iu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is IRM, spelled I-R-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Technique d’imagerie médicale permettant l’analyse fine du corps humain par l’action d’un champ magnétique et d’ondes radio.
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Frequency rank: #17,979 in French
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