dribbles
\dʁibl\
The verdict
“dribbles” is uncommon French (frequency #51,421 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,421
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de dribble.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dribbles · dribbles · French
dribbles · rank #51,421 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,421
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dresseurs
Nearest frequency peer: dresseurs (-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 « dribbles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dragage
dragage
48,583 corpus weight
- dragées
dragées
48,582 corpus weight
- dresseurs
dresseurs
48,581 corpus weight
- dribbles
dribbles
48,580 corpus weight
- dualisme
dualisme
48,579 corpus weight
- débaucher
débaucher
48,578 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dribbles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dribbles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁibl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,421 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dribbles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dribbles is uncommon French at frequency #51,421 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʁibl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de dribble.".
dribbles doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is dribbles, spelled D-R-I-B-B-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de dribble.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dribbles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les dribbles de l’ailier de 16 ans avaient été remarqués en tribune, mais également par Luka Elsner, ancien entraîneur de Liège.
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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