dreads
\dʁɛd\
The verdict
“dreads” is uncommon French (frequency #61,459 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,459
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dreadlocks.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dreads · dreads · French
dreads · rank #61,459 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,459
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH doublette
Nearest frequency peer: doublette (-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 « dreads »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dosée
dosée
38,545 corpus weight
- douar
douar
38,544 corpus weight
- doublette
doublette
38,543 corpus weight
- dreads
dreads
38,542 corpus weight
- dromadaires
dromadaires
38,541 corpus weight
- Dury
Dury
38,539 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dreads » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dreads |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁɛd\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,459 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dreads » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dreads is uncommon French at frequency #61,459 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʁɛd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dreadlocks.".
dreads has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dreads, spelled D-R-E-A-D-S.
Definition
- 1Dreadlocks.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dreads appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bizarrement, une fois détachées de sa tête, les dreads avaient un air sinistre.
Elle avait remonté ses dreads en un gigantesque chignon, ce qui dégageait son beau visage délicat.
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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