irrépressible
\i.ʁe.pʁe.sibl\
The verdict
“irrépressible” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,685. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,685
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qu’on ne peut réprimer ou contenir, irrésistible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-irrepressible · irrépressible · French
irrépressible · rank #45,685 · 17 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,685
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH irrécupérable
Nearest frequency peer: irrécupérable (-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 « irrépressible »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- inventes
inventes
54,320 corpus weight
- inéluctable…
inéluctablement
54,319 corpus weight
- Iouri
Iouri
54,318 corpus weight
- irrécupérab…
irrécupérable
54,317 corpus weight
- irrépressib…
irrépressible
54,316 corpus weight
- jacentes
jacentes
54,312 corpus weight
What this shows « irrépressible » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | irrépressible |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.ʁe.pʁe.sibl\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #45,685 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « irrépressible »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around irrépressible (IPA \i.ʁe.pʁe.sibl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #45,685 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qu’on ne peut réprimer ou contenir, irrésistible.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for irrépressible, with forms such as "irrepressible", "irrpéressible", and "irréperssible". 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. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 irrépressible, spelled I-R-R-É-P-R-E-S-S-I-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qu’on ne peut réprimer ou contenir, irrésistible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how irrépressible appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand on assistait à une comédie d’Eugène Labiche, c’était le même rire irrépressible.
L’irrépressible Rolf proposa d’aller souper à trois dans une taverne de Richmond où l’on trouvait de bonnes huîtres.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- irrepressible
- irrpéressible
- irréperssible
- irréppressible
- irrépresible
- irrépresisble
- irrépressbile
- irrépressibble
- irrépressibel
- irrépressiblle
- irrépressilbe
- irréprressible
- irréprsesible
- irrérpessible
- irépressible
- irérpressible
- rirépressible
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of irrépressible - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "irrépressible", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).