dri
\dʁi\
The verdict
“dri” is uncommon French (frequency #97,877 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,877
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femelle du yack.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dri · dri · French
dri · rank #97,877 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,877
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dresses
Nearest frequency peer: dresses (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “dri”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- doutée
doutée
2,128 corpus weight
- dramatic
dramatic
2,127 corpus weight
- dresses
dresses
2,125 corpus weight
- dri
dri
2,124 corpus weight
- Dupire
Dupire
2,122 corpus weight
- duru
duru
2,121 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “dri” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dri |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁi\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #97,877 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “dri” se place dans la fréquence du français
Rare enough to double-check
dri is uncommon French at frequency #97,877 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Femelle du yack.".
dri has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is dri, spelled D-R-I.
Definition
- 1Femelle du yack.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dri appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans le Changthang, une vieille ne possédait qu’une seule dri (c’est ainsi que l’on appelle le yak femelle en tibétain), qui était stérile, mais chaque année la vieille espérait obtenir un veau ; […]
Un peu abattus, nous poursuivîmes pied à terre, accompagnés désormais de notre seul cheval de bât. Nous tracions notre imaginaire « route du feutre », une lubie d’Européens se cherchant des itinéraires. D’Oulan-Bator à Lhassa, les nomades des hautes terres ont fait de cette étoffe de poil leur matériau. Nous croyions en cette civilisation du feutre, unie…
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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