irrigation
\i.ʁi.ɡa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“irrigation” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,915. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,915
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de distribuer artificiellement de l’eau sur des terres agricoles afin de favoriser la croissance des plantes, au moyen de canaux, de rigoles, de systèmes d’aspersion ou de goutte-à-goutte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-irrigation · irrigation · French
irrigation · rank #15,915 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,915
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH investissent
Nearest frequency peer: investissent (-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 « irrigation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- interprétée
interprétée
84,089 corpus weight
- intrigues
intrigues
84,088 corpus weight
- investissent
investissent
84,087 corpus weight
- irrigation
irrigation
84,086 corpus weight
- its
its
84,085 corpus weight
- jogging
jogging
84,083 corpus weight
What this shows « irrigation » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | irrigation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.ʁi.ɡa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #15,915 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « irrigation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around irrigation (IPA \i.ʁi.ɡa.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,915 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for irrigation, with forms such as "irigation", "irirgation", and "irrgiation". 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. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "irritation", "irritations", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 irrigation, spelled I-R-R-I-G-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de distribuer artificiellement de l’eau sur des terres agricoles afin de favoriser la croissance des plantes, au moyen de canaux, de rigoles, de systèmes d’aspersion ou de goutte-à-goutte.
- 2Nettoyage d’un organe en l’irriguant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how irrigation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est d'ailleurs impossible de compter pendant les sécheresses sur la totalité du produit alimentaire parce que les riverains de la Bar profitant de ce qu'elle n'est pas considérée comme rivière navigable en amont de la prise d'eau y font de nombreuses saignées pour l’irrigation de leurs prairies ; […].
Les Arabes ont poussé au plus haut degré l’art de l’irrigation ; leurs travaux hydrauliques attestent une civilisation des plus avancées ; ils subsistent encore aujourd’hui, et c’est à eux que Grenade doit d’être le paradis de l’Espagne, et de jouir d’un printemps éternel sous une température africaine.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- irigation
- irirgation
- irrgiation
- irriagtion
- irrigaiton
- irrigatino
- irrigationn
- irrigatoin
- irrigattion
- irriggation
- irrigtaion
- ririgation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of irrigation - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).