irritable

\i.ʁi.tabl\

/\i.ʁi.tabl\/ adj

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The verdict

“irritable” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,373. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#38,373
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
11
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui s'irrite aisément, enclin à l'irritation.

Corpus desk

Index FR-irritable · irritable · French

irritable · rank #38,373 · 11 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #38,373
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH invoquent

Nearest frequency peer: invoquent (-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 « irritable »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « irritable » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for irritable
PropertyValue
Headwordirritable
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\i.ʁi.tabl\
Letters9
Frequency rank#38,373
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « irritable »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).irritablese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « invoquent » (#38,372), « Isaïe » (#38,374), « intronisation » (#38,371). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « irritable » est au #38,373. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around irritable (IPA \i.ʁi.tabl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #38,373 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for irritable, with forms such as "irirtable", "iritable", and "irriatble". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No borrowing history is documented 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 irritable, spelled I-R-R-I-T-A-B-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui s'irrite aisément, enclin à l'irritation.
  2. 2
    Que l'on met facilement en colère.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how irritable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. j'ai la gorge irritable.
  2. Les muscles sont irritables.

Synonyms

acariâtreatrabilairecaractérielcoléreuxcolériqueémotifirasciblenévrotiquesusceptible

This word in other languages

irritable(English)reizbar(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • irirtable
  • iritable
  • irriatble
  • irritabble
  • irritabel
  • irritablle
  • irritalbe
  • irritbale
  • irrittable
  • irrtiable
  • riritable

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of irritable - 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.

irirtable2iritable1irriatble2irritabble1irritabel2irritablle1irritalbe2irritbale2
Edit distance from "irritable"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "irritable"?
"irritable" is spelled I-R-R-I-T-A-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \i.ʁi.tabl\.
What does "irritable" mean?
As an adjective, "irritable" means: Qui s'irrite aisément, enclin à l'irritation.
What are common misspellings of "irritable"?
Common misspellings include "irirtable", "iritable", "irriatble", "irritabble", "irritabel". The correct spelling is "irritable".
How do you pronounce "irritable"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "irritable" is \i.ʁi.tabl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "irritable" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "irritable", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

invoquent#38,372jamaïcain#38,377inquiétée#38,365indicible#38,362

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

incluait11 variantsLibourne11 variantsliqueurs11 variantsHawking11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list