irrespirable
\i.ʁɛs.pi.ʁabl\
The verdict
“irrespirable” is uncommon French (frequency #53,419 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,419
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui ne peut servir à la respiration.
Corpus desk
Index FR-irrespirable · irrespirable · French
irrespirable · rank #53,419 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,419
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH interlocutrice
Nearest frequency peer: interlocutrice (-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 « irrespirable »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- interceptée
interceptée
46,585 corpus weight
- intercultur…
interculturel
46,584 corpus weight
- interlocutr…
interlocutrice
46,583 corpus weight
- irrespirable
irrespirable
46,582 corpus weight
- irréelle
irréelle
46,581 corpus weight
- isotherme
isotherme
46,579 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « irrespirable » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | irrespirable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.ʁɛs.pi.ʁabl\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #53,419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « irrespirable » en français
Rare enough to double-check
irrespirable is uncommon French at frequency #53,419 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \i.ʁɛs.pi.ʁabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for irrespirable in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is irrespirable, spelled I-R-R-E-S-P-I-R-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui ne peut servir à la respiration.
- 2Qui ne peut être respiré qu’avec danger.
- 3Insupportable, lourd, pesant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how irrespirable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les noyades secondaires : Succédant à une syncope ou à une perte de connaissance dont la particularité et de survenir en milieu irrespirable.
Humbolt observe que l’on doit distinguer les effets de la lumière de ceux d'un air irrespirable. Les mineurs qui ont des os rhachitiques^([sic]), travaillent dans les moffettes.
This word in other languages
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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