fripouille
\fʁi.puj\
The verdict
“fripouille” is uncommon French (frequency #76,595 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,595
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne malhonnête, escroc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fripouille · fripouille · French
fripouille · rank #76,595 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,595
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH frontera
Nearest frequency peer: frontera (+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 « fripouille »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fracassantes
fracassantes
23,409 corpus weight
- fretin
fretin
23,408 corpus weight
- fripouille
fripouille
23,406 corpus weight
- frontera
frontera
23,405 corpus weight
- Fukuoka
Fukuoka
23,403 corpus weight
- fustigeant
fustigeant
23,402 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fripouille » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fripouille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁi.puj\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #76,595 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fripouille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fripouille is uncommon French at frequency #76,595 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fʁi.puj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fripouille, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 fripouille, spelled F-R-I-P-O-U-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Personne malhonnête, escroc.
- 2Personne malicieuse ou espiègle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fripouille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La société existe. Elle veut vivre. Donc elle réagit. Supposez qu’elle ne se défende pas : elle serait en quelques heures la proie d’innombrables fripouilles… Tout s’écroulerait.
Papa relut la lettre, mot à mot. Il disait, avec un sourire vert : « Les fripouilles, les fripouilles ! Nous vivons environnés de fripouilles. C’est extraordinaire ! »
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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