irrespectable
\i(ʁ).ʁɛs.pɛk.tabl\
The verdict
“irrespectable” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qu’on ne peut respecter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-irrespectable · irrespectable · French
irrespectable · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | irrespectable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i(ʁ).ʁɛs.pɛk.tabl\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
irrespectable is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \i(ʁ).ʁɛs.pɛk.tabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qu’on ne peut respecter.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for irrespectable, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is irrespectable, spelled I-R-R-E-S-P-E-C-T-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qu’on ne peut respecter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how irrespectable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jamais la police prussienne en France, jamais les reptiles n’ont été plus occupés […]. A Paris, la commande de surveillance, d’excitation, de fausses nouvelles, est si grosse, que le bataillon de reptiles a été augmenté de moitié, malgré le chiffre irrespectable auquel il était parvenu depuis deux ans.
[…] mais se laisser aller paresseusement à la voile pouvant procurer un plaisir, est considéré comme outrageant gravement le Seigneur, par conséquent répréhensible, choquant et irrespectable au plus haut chef.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.