ironiser
\i.ʁɔ.ni.ze\
The verdict
“ironiser” is uncommon French (frequency #74,906 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,906
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prendre le ton de l’ironie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ironiser · ironiser · French
ironiser · rank #74,906 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,906
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH invétérés
Nearest frequency peer: invétérés (-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 « ironiser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- intégrez
intégrez
25,098 corpus weight
- inventorier
inventorier
25,097 corpus weight
- invétérés
invétérés
25,096 corpus weight
- ironiser
ironiser
25,095 corpus weight
- Isaak
Isaak
25,094 corpus weight
- Iseut
Iseut
25,093 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ironiser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ironiser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \i.ʁɔ.ni.ze\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,906 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ironiser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ironiser is uncommon French at frequency #74,906 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \i.ʁɔ.ni.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for ironiser in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 ironiser, spelled I-R-O-N-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Prendre le ton de l’ironie.
- 2Tourner en dérision quelque chose ou quelqu'un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ironiser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les collaborateurs de La Gazette médicale ont beau jeu d’ironiser sur les signes qui désignent aussitôt ces choléraphobiques : […].
— Pedigree de Marcel Proute, je te prie. Du moins ce que tu en sais. — A l'origine, il était horloger, attaque Ambroise. — A la recherche du temps perdu, ironisé-je pour moi seul, mais j'ai la surprise de le voir sourire.
Synonyms
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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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