friperie
\fʁi.pʁi\
The verdict
“friperie” is uncommon French (frequency #59,304 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,304
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble d'habits, d'objets, de connaissances qui ont servi à d’autres personnes et qui sont fripés et usés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-friperie · friperie · French
friperie · rank #59,304 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,304
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Freycinet
Nearest frequency peer: Freycinet (-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 « friperie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- foulques
foulques
40,700 corpus weight
- fray
fray
40,699 corpus weight
- Freycinet
Freycinet
40,698 corpus weight
- friperie
friperie
40,697 corpus weight
- frou
frou
40,696 corpus weight
- further
further
40,695 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « friperie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | friperie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁi.pʁi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,304 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « friperie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
friperie is uncommon French at frequency #59,304 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fʁi.pʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for friperie in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 friperie, spelled F-R-I-P-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Ensemble d'habits, d'objets, de connaissances qui ont servi à d’autres personnes et qui sont fripés et usés.
- 2Métier d’acheter, de raccommoder et de revendre de vieux habits et de vieux meubles.
- 3Boutique de ceux qui font ce métier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how friperie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il lui fallut continuer et cracher cette odieuse mixture en friperies mythologiques et en madrigaux quintessenciés.
À mesure qu’il écartait les friperies amoncelées sur le corps, Jamalou se rendait compte qu’il arrivait trop tard.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).