criblés

\kʁi.ble\

/\kʁi.ble\/ verb

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The verdict

“criblés” is uncommon French (frequency #73,868 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#73,868
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin pluriel de cribler.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cribles · criblés · French

criblés · rank #73,868 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #73,868
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH criantes

Nearest frequency peer: criantes (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Rangs de longue queue près de « criblés »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « criblés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for criblés
PropertyValue
Headwordcriblés
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kʁi.ble\
Letters7
Frequency rank#73,868
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « criblés » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).cribléstombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « criantes » (#73,867), « criminellement » (#73,869), « Cronos » (#73,870). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « criblés » est au #73,868. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

criblés is uncommon French at frequency #73,868 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kʁi.ble\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin pluriel de cribler.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for criblés in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is criblés, spelled C-R-I-B-L-É-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participe passé masculin pluriel de cribler.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how criblés appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ils gisent épars, criblés de plomb, ou écrasés par l’avalanche déclenchée depuis le sommet des gorges.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "criblés"?
"criblés" is spelled C-R-I-B-L-É-S. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁi.ble\.
What does "criblés" mean?
As a verb, "criblés" means: Participe passé masculin pluriel de cribler.
How do you pronounce "criblés"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "criblés" is \kʁi.ble\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "criblés", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list