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irriter

French, verb/i.ʁi.te/

irriter is spelled I-R-R-I-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 37,217th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Irriter is a French verb meaning “to annoy, to irritate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre en colère, provoquer l'agacement, la contrariété, l'impatience de quelqu’un”.

What does irriter mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to annoy, to irritate

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Mettre en colère, provoquer l'agacement, la contrariété, l'impatience de quelqu’un. 2. Agacer, importuner. 3. Exciter, rendre plus fort, plus violent. 4. Causer de la douleur, de la chaleur et de la tension dans un organe, dans un tissu quelconque.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of irriter

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • irritant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • irrité participle past
  • irrite first-person indicative present
  • irrites indicative present second-person
  • irritons first-person indicative plural
  • irritez indicative plural present
  • irritent indicative plural present
  • irritais first-person imperfect indicative
  • irritait imperfect indicative singular
  • irritions first-person imperfect indicative
  • irritiez imperfect indicative plural
  • irritaient imperfect indicative plural
  • irritai first-person historic indicative
  • irritas historic indicative past
  • irrita historic indicative past
  • irritâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce irriter?

  • /i.ʁi.te/
  • \i.ʁi.te\
  • [i.ʁi.te]

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to irriter

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is irriter in French?

irriter appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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