irrégulier
\i.ʁe.ɡy.lje\
The verdict
“irrégulier” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #21,976 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #21,976
- frequency rank, French
- 10
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Qui n’est pas selon les règles, qui ne suit pas les règles.
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 | irrégulier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.ʁe.ɡy.lje\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #21,976 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “irrégulier” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for irrégulier is 10 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \i.ʁe.ɡy.lje\. Corpus data places it at rank #21,976 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for irrégulier, with forms such as "irregulier", "irrgéulier", and "irréggulier". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "irrégulière", "irréguliers", "irrégulières", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is irrégulier, spelled I-R-R-É-G-U-L-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui n’est pas selon les règles, qui ne suit pas les règles.
- 2Qui, après avoir reçu les ordres ecclésiastiques, devient incapable d’en exercer les fonctions, pour avoir encouru les censures.
- 3Qui n’est pas symétrique ou uniforme.
- 4Qualifie les vers qui ne sont pas tous de même mesure et dont les rimes ne sont pas disposées de la même manière.
- 5Qualifie une pièce florale dont les divisions ou les pétales ne sont pas semblables.
- 6Qualifie des soldats, des troupes qui n’appartiennent pas à l’armée régulière.
- 7Se dit d’une macromolécule ou d’un polymère dont la structure comporte plus d’une sorte d’unités constitutives, ou des unités constitutives identiques mais non reliées entre elles de la même manière.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: irregulier,irrgéulier,irréggulier,irrégluier,irréguiler,irréguleir,irrégulierr,irrégulire,irrégullier,irréuglier,irégulier,irérgulier,rirégulier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of irrégulier - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "irrégulier"
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 “irrégulier”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is I-R-R-É-G-U-L-I-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \i.ʁe.ɡy.lje\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “irrégulière” - see the side-by-side comparison. irrégulier vs irrégulière
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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