fripes
French, noun
fripes is spelled F-R-I-P-E-S (6 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 101,144th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fripes is a French noun meaning “plural of fripe” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, fripés is a different word: “masculine plural of fripé”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pluriel de fripe”.
What does fripes mean in English?
noun
- 1
plural of fripe
verb
- 1
second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of friper
verb
- 1
masculinemasculine plural of fripé
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pluriel de fripe.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of fripes
- fripe singular
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is fripes in French?
fripes appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).