# ripe

> English word · Adjective · IPA /ɹaɪp/ · frequency rank #11,783

## Definitions
1. Of a fruit, vegetable, seed, etc., ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature.
2. Of a food, advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow.
3. Having attained its full development; mature; perfected.
4. Of a sore, tumor, etc., maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge.
5. Ready for action or effect; prepared.
6. Ofa person, ready, willing, eager.
7. Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
8. Intoxicated.
9. Of a conflict between parties, having developed to a stage where the conflict may be reviewed by a court of law.
10. Smelly: having a disagreeable odor.

## Etymology
From Middle English ripe, rype, from Old English rīpe (“ripe, mature”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīpī, from Proto-Germanic *rīpijaz, *rīpiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyb- (“to snatch”). Cognate with West Frisian ryp (“ripe”), Dutch rijp (“ripe”), German reif (“ripe”). Related to reap.

## Easily confused with
- **RP** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ripe-vs-rp)
- **rue** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ripe-vs-rue)
- **RPG** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ripe-vs-rpg)
- **rye** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ripe-vs-rye)
- **rpm** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ripe-vs-rpm)
- **roe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ripe-vs-roe)
- **rit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ripe-vs-rit)
- **risk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ripe-vs-risk)
- **rule** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ripe-vs-rule)
- **rose** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ripe-vs-rose)
- **rise** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ripe-vs-rise)
- **Rome** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ripe-vs-rome)
- **rude** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ripe-vs-rude)
- **rope** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ripe-vs-rope)
- **rode** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ripe-vs-rode)
- **Rita** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ripe-vs-rita)
- **rite** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ripe-vs-rite)
- **robe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ripe-vs-robe)
- **Rowe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ripe-vs-rowe)
- **ritz** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ripe-vs-ritz)

## Common misspellings (5)
`irpe`, `riep`, `rippe`, `rpie`, `rripe`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/ripe