dribbler
\dʁi.ble\
The verdict
“dribbler” is uncommon French (frequency #71,440 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,440
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se déplacer avec la balle en évitant que les adversaires ne s’en emparent, dans les sports se jouant avec une balle ou un ballon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dribbler · dribbler · French
dribbler · rank #71,440 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,440
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dossards
Nearest frequency peer: dossards (-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 « dribbler »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- domiciliair…
domiciliaires
28,566 corpus weight
- dorine
dorine
28,563 corpus weight
- dossards
dossards
28,562 corpus weight
- dribbler
dribbler
28,561 corpus weight
- Duterte
Duterte
28,557 corpus weight
- DVDs
DVDs
28,556 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dribbler » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dribbler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dʁi.ble\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,440 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dribbler » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dribbler is uncommon French at frequency #71,440 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \dʁi.ble\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dribbler, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is dribbler, spelled D-R-I-B-B-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Se déplacer avec la balle en évitant que les adversaires ne s’en emparent, dans les sports se jouant avec une balle ou un ballon.
- 2Se déplacer avec la balle en la faisant rebondir sur le sol.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dribbler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils descendirent à la station Cité universitaire. Devant eux, un jeune garçon poussait du pied un ballon de football. Brossier lui fit une feinte et réussit à dribbler jusqu'à l'escalier sans que le jeune garçon puisse récupérer son ballon. Il était ravi de cet exploit.
L'action la plus spectaculaire du Yougoslave eut lieu sur l'aile gauche à la quinzième minute. Il dribble Caricola en pivot, réussit dans la foulée un petit pont sur Gentile, puis dribble Tardelli et Caricola revenus! le tout en marchant presque.
This word in other languages
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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