irrationnel
\i.ʁa.sjɔ.nɛl\
The verdict
“irrationnel” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,067. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,067
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui n’est pas conforme à la raison.
Corpus desk
Index FR-irrationnel · irrationnel · French
irrationnel · rank #26,067 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #26,067
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inventent
Nearest frequency peer: inventent (-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 « irrationnel »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- interdisait
interdisait
73,937 corpus weight
- intuitif
intuitif
73,936 corpus weight
- inventent
inventent
73,935 corpus weight
- irrationnel
irrationnel
73,934 corpus weight
- ixe
ixe
73,932 corpus weight
- jamal
jamal
73,931 corpus weight
What this shows « irrationnel » 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 | irrationnel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.ʁa.sjɔ.nɛl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #26,067 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « irrationnel »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around irrationnel (IPA \i.ʁa.sjɔ.nɛl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #26,067 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for irrationnel, with forms such as "irartionnel", "irationnel", and "irraitonnel". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "irrationnelle", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is irrationnel, spelled I-R-R-A-T-I-O-N-N-E-L.
Definition
- 1Qui n’est pas conforme à la raison.
- 2Se dit des quantités qui n’ont aucune commune mesure avec l’unité, c’est-à-dire qui ne peuvent être représentées ni par des nombres entiers, ni par des fractions (les nombres rationnels).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how irrationnel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il venait de songer, comme à un aspect spécial de l’injustice irrationnelle du destin, que ces deux hommes vivaient, alors que Kurt était mort.
Nabet vit rouge et sentit monter en lui une colère irrationnelle. Pourtant il se contint, l'angoisse était plus forte que son ressentiment.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- irartionnel
- irationnel
- irraitonnel
- irratinonel
- irrationel
- irrationenl
- irrationnell
- irrationnle
- irratoinnel
- irrattionnel
- irrtaionnel
- rirationnel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of irrationnel - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "irrationnel", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).