irrité

\i.ʁi.te\

/\i.ʁi.te\/ adj

The verdict

“irrité” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,258. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#23,258
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - De mauvaise humeur à cause de quelque chose.

Corpus desk

Index FR-irrite · irrité · French

irrité · rank #23,258 · 7 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #23,258
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH intégristes

Nearest frequency peer: intégristes (-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 « irrité »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « irrité » 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

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

irrité vs irriter
71% similar
irrité vs irait
67% similar
irrité vs imite
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for irrité
PropertyValue
Headwordirrité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\i.ʁi.te\
Letters6
Frequency rank#23,258
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « irrité »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.irritése place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « intégristes » (#23,257), « intestins » (#23,256), « JDD » (#23,260). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « irrité » est au #23,258. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around irrité (IPA \i.ʁi.te\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #23,258 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for irrité, with forms such as "irirté", "irité", and "irrite". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "irriter", "irait", "imite", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is irrité, spelled I-R-R-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    De mauvaise humeur à cause de quelque chose.
  2. 2
    Qui subit une irritation.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. C'était évidemment une satisfaction de pure forme donnée par Londres aux exigences irritées de la France. Il fallait bien que les puissances locarniennes parussent tomber d'accord.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • irirté
  • irité
  • irrite
  • irritté
  • irriét
  • irrtié
  • ririté

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of irrité - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

irirté2irité1irrite1irritté1irriét2irrtié2ririté2
Edit distance from "irrité"

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 "irrité"?
"irrité" is spelled I-R-R-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \i.ʁi.te\.
What does "irrité" mean?
As an adjective, "irrité" means: De mauvaise humeur à cause de quelque chose.
What words are commonly confused with "irrité"?
"irrité" is commonly confused with "irriter", "irait", "imite". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "irrité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "irrité" is \i.ʁi.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "irrité" come from?
"irrité" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list