Irvine
The verdict
“Irvine” is uncommon French (frequency #57,347 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,347
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rivière de l’Ayrshire qui s'écoule dans le Firth of Clyde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-irvine · Irvine · French
Irvine · rank #57,347 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,347
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH IRS
Nearest frequency peer: IRS (-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 « Irvine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- jailli
jailli
42,651 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Irvine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Irvine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,347 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Irvine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Irvine is uncommon French at frequency #57,347 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Irvine in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Irvine, spelled I-R-V-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Rivière de l’Ayrshire qui s'écoule dans le Firth of Clyde.
- 2Ville d’Écosse située dans le North Ayrshire.
- 3Hameau en Alberta (Canada).
- 4Ville du comté d’Orange en Californie (États-Unis).
- 5Communauté non incorporée du comté de Marion en Floride (États-Unis).
- 6Ville, et siège du comté d'Estill, au Kentucky (États-Unis).
- 7Communauté non incorporée du comté de Converse au Wyoming (États-Unis).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Irvine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Irvine, petite ville maritime du comté de Renfrew, qui compte environ sept mille habitants, est bâtie dans un brusque retour que fait la côte écossaise, presque à l’ouverture du golfe de Clyde. Son port, assez bien abrité contre les vents du large, est éclairé par un feu important qui indique les atterrissages, de telle façon qu’un marin prudent ne peut s…
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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