irréfragable
\i.ʁe.fʁa.ɡabl\
The verdict
“irréfragable” is an uncommon French word, ranked #91,835 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #91,835
- frequency rank, French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qualifie une présomption légale à laquelle on ne peut pas apporter de preuve contraire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | irréfragable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.ʁe.fʁa.ɡabl\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #91,835 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “irréfragable” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for irréfragable is 12 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \i.ʁe.fʁa.ɡabl\. Corpus data places it at rank #91,835 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
irréfragable doesn't appear in our generated misspelling 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is irréfragable, spelled I-R-R-É-F-R-A-G-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qualifie une présomption légale à laquelle on ne peut pas apporter de preuve contraire.
- 2Qu’on ne peut contredire, qu’on ne peut récuser.
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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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Using “irréfragable”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is I-R-R-É-F-R-A-G-A-B-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \i.ʁe.fʁa.ɡabl\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.