drinks

\dʁiŋk\

/\dʁiŋk\/ noun

The verdict

“drinks” is uncommon French (frequency #70,548 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#70,548
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de drink.

Corpus desk

Index FR-drinks · drinks · French

drinks · rank #70,548 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #70,548
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH driven

Nearest frequency peer: driven (+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 « drinks »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « drinks » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for drinks
PropertyValue
Headworddrinks
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dʁiŋk\
Letters6
Frequency rank#70,548
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « drinks » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).drinkstombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « driven » (#70,549), « douve » (#70,546), « druze » (#70,550). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « drinks » est au #70,548. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

drinks is uncommon French at frequency #70,548 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʁiŋk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de drink.".

drinks doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is drinks, spelled D-R-I-N-K-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de drink.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "drinks"?
"drinks" is spelled D-R-I-N-K-S. The IPA pronunciation is \dʁiŋk\.
What does "drinks" mean?
As a noun, "drinks" means: Pluriel de drink.
How do you pronounce "drinks"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "drinks" is \dʁiŋk\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "drinks" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "drinks", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list