drip
\dɹɪp\
The verdict
“drip” is uncommon French (frequency #93,691 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,691
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Goutte (petite quantité de liquide).
Corpus desk
Index FR-drip · drip · French
drip · rank #93,691 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,691
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH douars
Nearest frequency peer: douars (-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 « drip »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dok
dok
6,314 corpus weight
- doléance
doléance
6,313 corpus weight
- dormiront
dormiront
6,312 corpus weight
- douars
douars
6,311 corpus weight
- drip
drip
6,310 corpus weight
- Dumortier
Dumortier
6,308 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « drip » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drip |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɹɪp\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #93,691 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « drip » en français
Rare enough to double-check
drip is uncommon French at frequency #93,691 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɹɪp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Goutte (petite quantité de liquide).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for drip, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists 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 drip, spelled D-R-I-P.
Definition
- 1Goutte (petite quantité de liquide).
Synonyms
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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