irriguent
\i.ʁiɡ\
The verdict
“irriguent” is uncommon French (frequency #86,829 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,829
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de irriguer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-irriguent · irriguent · French
irriguent · rank #86,829 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,829
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inusités
Nearest frequency peer: inusités (-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 « irriguent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- interrompe
interrompe
13,175 corpus weight
- interventio…
interventionnistes
13,174 corpus weight
- inusités
inusités
13,173 corpus weight
- irriguent
irriguent
13,172 corpus weight
- Iseult
Iseult
13,171 corpus weight
- isérois
isérois
13,169 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « irriguent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | irriguent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \i.ʁiɡ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #86,829 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « irriguent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
irriguent is uncommon French at frequency #86,829 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \i.ʁiɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
irriguent has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is irriguent, spelled I-R-R-I-G-U-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de irriguer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de irriguer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how irriguent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais sous les gratte-ciel flamboyants vibre une ville parallèle : un New York d’épaves humaines qui irriguent un vaste réseau de tunnels, de niches et de cavités.
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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