Which to use
“irais” and “irait” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #7,200
- “irais” frequency rank
- #8,258
- “irait” frequency rank
- 15458
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | irais | irait |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Première personne du singulier du conditionnel présent de aller. | Troisième personne du singulier du conditionnel présent de aller. |
Same sound, different letters: irais vs irait
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 4 letters. irais and irait follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Ear matches; page differs - irais and irait
This is the hard kind. irais and irait are pronounced identically (\i.ʁɛ\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by a single letter - s in “irais” becomes t in “irait”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 15458, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
irais is recorded at frequency rank #7,200, classified as averb, pronounced \i.ʁɛ\. irait is at rank #8,258, tagged as averb, pronounced \i.ʁɛ\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 15458, this pair ranks #392,279 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of irais vs irait
Shared letters: air. Private to "irais": s. Private to "irait": t.
"irais" · 5 letters · shape VCVVC · "irait" · 5 letters · shape VCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "irais" and "irait" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "irais" or "irait"?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "irais" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "irait" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #392,279 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "irais" and "irait" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Idris vs irais". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #392,279 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.