irons
\i.ʁɔ̃\
The verdict
“irons” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,980. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,980
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif futur de aller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-irons · irons · French
irons · rank #17,980 · 7 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,980
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH IRM
Nearest frequency peer: IRM (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « irons »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 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
- kay
kay
82,018 corpus weight
What this shows « irons » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | irons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \i.ʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #17,980 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « irons »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around irons (IPA \i.ʁɔ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #17,980 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif futur de aller.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for irons, with forms such as "iorns", "irnos", and "ironns". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "iront", "ios", "ion", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is irons, spelled I-R-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif futur de aller.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how irons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pendant que l’on compose le journal, dit Lousteau, je vais aller faire un tour avec toi, te présenter à tous les contrôles et à toutes les coulisses des théâtres où tu as tes entrées ; puis nous irons retrouver Florine et Coralie au Panorama-Dramatique où nous folichonnerons avec elles dans leurs loges.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iorns
- irnos
- ironns
- ironss
- irosn
- irrons
- rions
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of irons - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).