bribe

/\bʁib\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#93,548

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

bribe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petit, insignifiant morceau de pain ou de nourriture laissé à un déshérité. Pronounced \bʁib\.

Key facts for bribe
PropertyValue
Headwordbribe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bʁib\
Letters5
Frequency rank#93,548
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of bribe in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for bribe is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁib\. Corpus data places it at rank #93,548 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for bribe in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is bribe, spelled B-R-I-B-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Petit, insignifiant morceau de pain ou de nourriture laissé à un déshérité.
  2. 2
    Les restes d’un repas ou de nourriture.
  3. 3
    Toute sorte de restes ou de morceaux, notamment de paroles.
  4. 4
    Dans un signal numérique formé selon une loi déterminée à partir d’un élément de donnée, une des parties émises successivement, qui possède des caractéristiques distinctes des autres.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #93,548 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bribe"?
"bribe" is spelled B-R-I-B-E. The IPA pronunciation is \bʁib\.
What does "bribe" mean?
As a noun, "bribe" means: Petit, insignifiant morceau de pain ou de nourriture laissé à un déshérité.
How do you pronounce "bribe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bribe" is \bʁib\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bribe" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.