fripon
\fʁi.pɔ̃\
The verdict
“fripon” is uncommon French (frequency #63,008 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,008
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pour un adolescent ou un jeune homme coquet, qui fait des fredaines ou qui est égrillard.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fripon · fripon · French
fripon · rank #63,008 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,008
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Franconie
Nearest frequency peer: Franconie (-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 « fripon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fourberies
fourberies
36,997 corpus weight
- fournissez
fournissez
36,996 corpus weight
- fourragère
fourragère
36,995 corpus weight
- Franconie
Franconie
36,994 corpus weight
- fripon
fripon
36,993 corpus weight
- FSC
FSC
36,992 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fripon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fripon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fʁi.pɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,008 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fripon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fripon is uncommon French at frequency #63,008 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fʁi.pɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pour un adolescent ou un jeune homme coquet, qui fait des fredaines ou qui est égrillard.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fripon, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is fripon, spelled F-R-I-P-O-N.
Definition
- 1Pour un adolescent ou un jeune homme coquet, qui fait des fredaines ou qui est égrillard.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fripon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le chat qui la regarde, Et ron et ron petit patapon Le chat qui la regarde D’un petit air fripon Ron, ron, d’un petit air fripon.
Si, par hasard Sur le Pont des Arts Tu croises le vent, le vent fripon Prudence, prends garde à ton jupon.
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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