IRS
\i.ɛ.ʁɛs\
The verdict
“IRS” is uncommon French (frequency #57,346 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,346
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Classe d’antidépresseurs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-irs · IRS · French
IRS · rank #57,346 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,346
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH iridium
Nearest frequency peer: iridium (-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 « IRS »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- intentionna…
intentionnalité
42,659 corpus weight
- intercultur…
interculturelle
42,658 corpus weight
- intergénéra…
intergénérationnelle
42,657 corpus weight
- iridium
iridium
42,656 corpus weight
- IRS
IRS
42,655 corpus weight
- Irvine
Irvine
42,654 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « IRS » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | IRS |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.ɛ.ʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #57,346 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « IRS » en français
Rare enough to double-check
IRS is uncommon French at frequency #57,346 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.ɛ.ʁɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Classe d’antidépresseurs.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for IRS, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is IRS, spelled I-R-S.
Definition
- 1Classe d’antidépresseurs.
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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