irritante
\i.ʁi.tɑ̃t\
The verdict
“irritante” is uncommon French (frequency #62,378 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,378
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de irritant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-irritante · irritante · French
irritante · rank #62,378 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,378
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH intrusive
Nearest frequency peer: intrusive (-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 « irritante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- interrogate…
interrogateur
37,626 corpus weight
- interrégion…
interrégional
37,625 corpus weight
- intrusive
intrusive
37,624 corpus weight
- irritante
irritante
37,623 corpus weight
- irvin
irvin
37,622 corpus weight
- IUFM
IUFM
37,621 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « irritante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | irritante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.ʁi.tɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,378 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « irritante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
irritante is uncommon French at frequency #62,378 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \i.ʁi.tɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de irritant.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for irritante, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 irritante, spelled I-R-R-I-T-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de irritant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how irritante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans un lourd cendrier de cristal, une cigarette blonde à filtre charbonnait de manière irritante.
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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