Irun
The verdict
“Irun” is uncommon French (frequency #98,106 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,106
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune du Pays basque espagnol située dans la province de Guipuscoa.
Corpus desk
Index FR-irun · Irun · French
Irun · rank #98,106 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,106
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH invitais
Nearest frequency peer: invitais (-3 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 « Irun »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- interplanét…
interplanétaires
1,900 corpus weight
- interprétab…
interprétable
1,899 corpus weight
- invitais
invitais
1,898 corpus weight
- Irun
Irun
1,895 corpus weight
- isomorphe
isomorphe
1,892 corpus weight
- isomorphes
isomorphes
1,891 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Irun » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Irun |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #98,106 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Irun » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Irun is uncommon French at frequency #98,106 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune du Pays basque espagnol située dans la province de Guipuscoa.".
Irun has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Irun, spelled I-R-U-N.
Definition
- 1Commune du Pays basque espagnol située dans la province de Guipuscoa.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Irun appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La bataille d’Irún entre les républicains et les nationalistes, à la frontière française, va durer une quinzaine de jours.
« On ne peut pas aller plus vite que le temps », philosophait l’entraîneur David Guion samedi dernier après la victoire face aux Espagnols d’Irun (2-1), le 3ᵉ succès (pour un nul et une défaite) d’une préparation rythmée par l’indécision.
This word in other languages
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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