irradier
\i.ʁa.dje\
The verdict
“irradier” is uncommon French (frequency #77,624 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,624
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Soumettre à un intense rayonnement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-irradier · irradier · French
irradier · rank #77,624 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,624
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH intuitives
Nearest frequency peer: intuitives (-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 « irradier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- intercontin…
intercontinentaux
22,381 corpus weight
- interposées
interposées
22,380 corpus weight
- intuitives
intuitives
22,378 corpus weight
- irradier
irradier
22,377 corpus weight
- islamiser
islamiser
22,375 corpus weight
- isocèle
isocèle
22,374 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « irradier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | irradier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \i.ʁa.dje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,624 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « irradier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
irradier is uncommon French at frequency #77,624 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \i.ʁa.dje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for irradier, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is irradier, spelled I-R-R-A-D-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Soumettre à un intense rayonnement.
- 2Rayonner, émaner.
- 3Se propager.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how irradier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Irradier un matériau avec un faisceau de particules nucléaires cause généralement beaucoup de dégâts.
On sent irradier de la plus humble tige Quelque parfum hardi, insistant, incisif.
Synonyms
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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