freeride
\fʁi.ʁajd\
The verdict
“freeride” is uncommon French (frequency #74,015 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,015
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variation de plusieurs disciplines sportives, pratiquée avec le moins de restrictions possible sur le style, le parcours ou l’objectif à atteindre (ex. : ski, snowboard, VTT, motocyclette, motoneige).
Corpus desk
Index FR-freeride · freeride · French
freeride · rank #74,015 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,015
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fraternels
Nearest frequency peer: fraternels (-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 « freeride »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fournil
fournil
25,990 corpus weight
- fractionner
fractionner
25,989 corpus weight
- Fransaskois
Fransaskois
25,988 corpus weight
- fraternels
fraternels
25,987 corpus weight
- freeride
freeride
25,986 corpus weight
- fécondés
fécondés
25,983 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « freeride » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | freeride |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁi.ʁajd\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,015 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « freeride » en français
Rare enough to double-check
freeride is uncommon French at frequency #74,015 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fʁi.ʁajd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variation de plusieurs disciplines sportives, pratiquée avec le moins de restrictions possible sur le style, le parcours ou l’objectif à atteindre (ex. : ski, snowboard, VTT, motocyclette, motoneige).".
freeride doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is freeride, spelled F-R-E-E-R-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Variation de plusieurs disciplines sportives, pratiquée avec le moins de restrictions possible sur le style, le parcours ou l’objectif à atteindre (ex. : ski, snowboard, VTT, motocyclette, motoneige).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how freeride appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fin janvier à Chamonix. Une quarantaine de skieurs et de surfeurs se sont donnés rendez-vous au sommet du Mont Fortin (2 800 m) dans le versant italien du Mont Blanc, pour la première étape de la Coupe du monde de freeride.
Ca fait environ 6 mois que je roule au Mt Verdun, à la Croix Rousse et à l’Observance vers Vaise. Je vais aussi sur des freerides comme Yzeron, prochainement Marchaux et Chuyer.
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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