irrégularité

\i.ʁe.ɡy.la.ʁi.te\

/\i.ʁe.ɡy.la.ʁi.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“irrégularité” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,227. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#30,227
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
16
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère de ce qui n’est pas selon les règles, de ce qui ne suit pas les règles.

Corpus desk

Index FR-irregularite · irrégularité · French

irrégularité · rank #30,227 · 16 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #30,227
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 16 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH irréaliste

Nearest frequency peer: irréaliste (-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 « irrégularité »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « irrégularité » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

irrégularité vs irrégularités
92% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for irrégularité
PropertyValue
Headwordirrégularité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\i.ʁe.ɡy.la.ʁi.te\
Letters12
Frequency rank#30,227
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « irrégularité »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).irrégularitése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « irréaliste » (#30,226), « irritant » (#30,225), « Jarry » (#30,229). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « irrégularité » est au #30,227. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around irrégularité (IPA \i.ʁe.ɡy.la.ʁi.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,227 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for irrégularité, with forms such as "irregularite", "irrgéularité", and "irréggularité". 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, "irrégularités", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is irrégularité, spelled I-R-R-É-G-U-L-A-R-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Caractère de ce qui n’est pas selon les règles, de ce qui ne suit pas les règles.
  2. 2
    Chose faite irrégulièrement.
  3. 3
    État où est un clerc, un prêtre irrégulier.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how irrégularité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. L’irrégularité d’un monument.
  2. L’irrégularité d’un poème.

Antonyms

régularité

This word in other languages

irregularity(English)irregularidad(Español)Unregelmäßigkeit(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • irregularite
  • irrgéularité
  • irréggularité
  • irrégluarité
  • irrégualrité
  • irrégulairté
  • irrégularitté
  • irrégulariét
  • irrégularrité
  • irrégulartié
  • irrégullarité
  • irrégulraité
  • irréuglarité
  • irégularité
  • irérgularité
  • rirégularité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of irrégularité - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

irregularite2irrgéularité2irréggularité1irrégluarité2irrégualrité2irrégulairté2irrégularitté1irrégulariét2
Edit distance from "irrégularité"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "irrégularité"?
"irrégularité" is spelled I-R-R-É-G-U-L-A-R-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \i.ʁe.ɡy.la.ʁi.te\.
What does "irrégularité" mean?
As a noun, "irrégularité" means: Caractère de ce qui n’est pas selon les règles, de ce qui ne suit pas les règles.
What words are commonly confused with "irrégularité"?
"irrégularité" is commonly confused with "irrégularités". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "irrégularité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "irrégularité" is \i.ʁe.ɡy.la.ʁi.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "irrégularité" come from?
"irrégularité" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "irrégularité", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

incendiaires#30,215moléculaires#30,266furieusement#30,172organigramme#30,290

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

investment16 variantsintégrales16 variantsinterférer16 variantslancements16 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list