ribbon
\ˈɹɪb.ən\
The verdict
“ribbon” is uncommon French (frequency #82,424 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,424
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ruban de vêtement, aiguillette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ribbon · ribbon · French
ribbon · rank #82,424 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,424
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Ribeauvillé
Nearest frequency peer: Ribeauvillé (+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 « ribbon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- retournai
retournai
17,582 corpus weight
- revendait
revendait
17,581 corpus weight
- reversement
reversement
17,580 corpus weight
- revisitant
revisitant
17,579 corpus weight
- ribbon
ribbon
17,577 corpus weight
- Ribeauvillé
Ribeauvillé
17,576 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ribbon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ribbon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɹɪb.ən\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #82,424 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ribbon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ribbon is uncommon French at frequency #82,424 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈɹɪb.ən\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
ribbon has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ribbon, spelled R-I-B-B-O-N.
Definition
- 1Ruban de vêtement, aiguillette.
- 2Ruban d'encre.
- 3Ruban de logiciel, barre d'onglets de de menus.
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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