friperies
\fʁi.pʁi\
The verdict
“friperies” is uncommon French (frequency #78,440 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,440
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de friperie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-friperies · friperies · French
friperies · rank #78,440 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,440
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fourreaux
Nearest frequency peer: fourreaux (-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 « friperies »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- forçaient
forçaient
21,564 corpus weight
- forés
forés
21,563 corpus weight
- fourreaux
fourreaux
21,562 corpus weight
- friperies
friperies
21,561 corpus weight
- frisch
frisch
21,560 corpus weight
- froncer
froncer
21,558 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « friperies » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | friperies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁi.pʁi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #78,440 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « friperies » en français
Rare enough to double-check
friperies is uncommon French at frequency #78,440 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fʁi.pʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de friperie.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for friperies, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 friperies, spelled F-R-I-P-E-R-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de friperie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how friperies appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si ces fashionistas aiment tant ces fringues, c’est parce qu’elles ne les ont pas ruinées. Parce que la seconde main, c’est écologique aussi. Mais, surtout, parce que les clients des friperies cherchent « à se différencier », confie à 20 Minutes Audrey Quenin, la fondatrice du Salon du vintage de Montpellier.
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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