irruption
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,398
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
irruption is aFrenchnoun. It means: Entrée soudaine et imprévue des ennemis dans un pays, ordinairement accompagnée de dégât et de ravage. Pronounced \i.ʁyp.sjɔ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | irruption |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.ʁyp.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #16,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for irruption is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \i.ʁyp.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,398 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for irruption, with forms such as "irrpution", "irrupiton", and "irrupption". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is irruption, spelled I-R-R-U-P-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Entrée soudaine et imprévue des ennemis dans un pays, ordinairement accompagnée de dégât et de ravage.
- 2Toute entrée ou intrusion brusque, inattendue ou malvenue.
- 3Débordement, envahissement de la mer, d’un fleuve sur les terres.
- 4Arrivée massive, invasion d'oiseaux hors de leur aire de répartition habituelle.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: irrpution,irrupiton,irrupption,irruptino,irruptionn,irruptoin,irrupttion,irrutpion,iruption,irurption,riruption
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Misspelling Variants of "irruption"
Frequency rank: #16,398 in French
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