nombre irrationnel

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for nombre irrationnel is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nɔ̃m.bʁ‿i.ʁa.sjɔ.nɛl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nombre réel qui n’est pas rationnel, c’est-à-dire qui ne peut pas s’écrire sous la forme d’une fraction a/b, où a et b sont deux entiers relatifs et b n'est pas nul.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for nombre irrationnel, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 nombre irrationnel, spelled N-O-M-B-R-E- -I-R-R-A-T-I-O-N-N-E-L.