irritent
\i.ʁit\
The verdict
“irritent” is uncommon French (frequency #65,237 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,237
- 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 irriter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-irritent · irritent · French
irritent · rank #65,237 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,237
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH irréfléchie
Nearest frequency peer: irréfléchie (+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 « irritent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- interrogeons
interrogeons
34,768 corpus weight
- intégrations
intégrations
34,767 corpus weight
- inépuisables
inépuisables
34,766 corpus weight
- irritent
irritent
34,764 corpus weight
- irréfléchie
irréfléchie
34,763 corpus weight
- Istrie
Istrie
34,760 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « irritent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | irritent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \i.ʁit\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,237 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « irritent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
irritent is uncommon French at frequency #65,237 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \i.ʁit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
irritent doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is irritent, spelled I-R-R-I-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de irriter.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de irriter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how irritent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quel est le persécuteur ? C’est celui dont l’orgueil blessé et le fanatisme en fureur irritent le prince ou les magistrats contre des hommes innocents, qui n’ont d’autre crime que de n’être pas de son avis.
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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