dribble
\dʁibl\
The verdict
“dribble” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,710. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,710
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dans les sports de balle, action consistant à esquiver son adversaire tout en conservant le ballon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dribble · dribble · French
dribble · rank #46,710 · 9 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #46,710
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH douées
Nearest frequency peer: douées (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « dribble »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Dombes
Dombes
53,294 corpus weight
- dorsal
dorsal
53,293 corpus weight
- douées
douées
53,292 corpus weight
- dribble
dribble
53,291 corpus weight
- dunlop
dunlop
53,290 corpus weight
- débrouillent
débrouillent
53,287 corpus weight
What this shows « dribble » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dribble |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁibl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #46,710 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dribble »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around dribble (IPA \dʁibl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,710 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Dans les sports de balle, action consistant à esquiver son adversaire tout en conservant le ballon.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for dribble, with forms such as "ddribble", "dirbble", and "drbible". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "diable", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is dribble, spelled D-R-I-B-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Dans les sports de balle, action consistant à esquiver son adversaire tout en conservant le ballon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dribble appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le dribble qui, comme la corrida, permet par la grâce d'un seul mouvement du corps d'effacer l'obstacle. Même le « un contre un » en handball n'a jamais rivalisé avec l'ivresse du petit pont.
En fonction de la zone de jeu où le dribble est effectué, ce dernier doit permettre de « s’ouvrir » le chemin du but ou de créer une situation de surnombre profitable à l’équipe.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddribble
- dirbble
- drbible
- dribbel
- dribblle
- driblbe
- drible
- drribble
- rdibble
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dribble - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).