distrib
\dis.tʁib\
The verdict
“distrib” is uncommon French (frequency #57,876 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,876
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Distribution ; distributeur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-distrib · distrib · French
distrib · rank #57,876 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,876
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dissocie
Nearest frequency peer: dissocie (-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 « distrib »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- disante
disante
42,128 corpus weight
- disquaire
disquaire
42,127 corpus weight
- dissocie
dissocie
42,126 corpus weight
- distrib
distrib
42,125 corpus weight
- diverge
diverge
42,124 corpus weight
- doudous
doudous
42,123 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « distrib » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | distrib |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dis.tʁib\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,876 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « distrib » en français
Rare enough to double-check
distrib is uncommon French at frequency #57,876 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dis.tʁib\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for distrib, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is distrib, spelled D-I-S-T-R-I-B.
Definition
- 1Distribution ; distributeur.
- 2Distribution ou courroie de distribution.
- 3Distributeur de billets.
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.
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