irrégulièrement
\i.ʁe.ɡy.ljɛʁ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“irrégulièrement” is uncommon French (frequency #52,131 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,131
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une façon irrégulière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-irregulierement · irrégulièrement · French
irrégulièrement · rank #52,131 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,131
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH irritée
Nearest frequency peer: irritée (-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 « irrégulièrement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- inusité
inusité
47,873 corpus weight
- irrationnel…
irrationnelles
47,872 corpus weight
- irritée
irritée
47,871 corpus weight
- irrégulière…
irrégulièrement
47,870 corpus weight
- isolent
isolent
47,869 corpus weight
- jacobin
jacobin
47,867 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « irrégulièrement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | irrégulièrement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \i.ʁe.ɡy.ljɛʁ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #52,131 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « irrégulièrement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
irrégulièrement is uncommon French at frequency #52,131 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \i.ʁe.ɡy.ljɛʁ.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for irrégulièrement, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is irrégulièrement, spelled I-R-R-É-G-U-L-I-È-R-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une façon irrégulière.
- 2Contraire à un règlement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how irrégulièrement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Appliqué contre la face externe de la branche du maxillaire inférieur, le masséter est court, large et très-épais, aplati d’un côté à l’autre, de forme irrégulièrement quadrilatère, formé de plans superposés dont deux principaux, qui sont parfaitement distincts, près de l’articulation temporo-maxillaire, par la direction un peu différente de leurs fibres.
Bien comptées, une soixantaine de maisons, irrégulièrement accroupies sur l’unique rue, coiffées d’un capricieux toit dont le faîtage déborde les murs de pisé, […].
Synonyms
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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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