irvin
\ˈir.vĩn\
The verdict
“irvin” is uncommon French (frequency #62,379 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,379
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Navets.
Corpus desk
Index FR-irvin · irvin · French
irvin · rank #62,379 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,379
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH irritante
Nearest frequency peer: irritante (-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 « irvin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- interrégion…
interrégional
37,625 corpus weight
- intrusive
intrusive
37,624 corpus weight
- irritante
irritante
37,623 corpus weight
- irvin
irvin
37,622 corpus weight
- IUFM
IUFM
37,621 corpus weight
- Ivana
Ivana
37,620 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « irvin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | irvin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈir.vĩn\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,379 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « irvin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
irvin is uncommon French at frequency #62,379 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈir.vĩn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Navets.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for irvin, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is irvin, spelled I-R-V-I-N.
Definition
- 1Navets.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how irvin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tad-kozh en deus hadet irvin. Un irvinenn zivent a zo deuet, hag unan nemetken.
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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