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riblet

noun

riblet is a noun meaning “Boneless processed pork or beef rib meat, served at restaurants and fast food places” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-I-B-L-E-T, and it appears about once in every 51 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of riblet is riblets.

What does riblet mean?

noun

  1. 1

    USBoneless processed pork or beef rib meat, served at restaurants and fast food places.

  2. 2

    UKA cut of veal or lamb taken from near the rib

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of riblet

  • riblets plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is riblet?

Riblet appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does riblet come from?

From rib + -let.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).