ribes
\ʁi.bɛs\
The verdict
“ribes” is uncommon French (frequency #56,886 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,886
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arbrisseau d’ornement et/ou fructifère du genre Ribes, comprenant en autres les groseilliers et cassissiers.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ribes · ribes · French
ribes · rank #56,886 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,886
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH revendues
Nearest frequency peer: revendues (-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 « ribes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rerum
rerum
43,118 corpus weight
- retrouverais
retrouverais
43,117 corpus weight
- revendues
revendues
43,116 corpus weight
- ribes
ribes
43,115 corpus weight
- Riboud
Riboud
43,114 corpus weight
- rivas
rivas
43,113 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ribes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ribes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.bɛs\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #56,886 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ribes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ribes is uncommon French at frequency #56,886 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁi.bɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Arbrisseau d’ornement et/ou fructifère du genre Ribes, comprenant en autres les groseilliers et cassissiers.".
ribes has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is ribes, spelled R-I-B-E-S.
Definition
- 1Arbrisseau d’ornement et/ou fructifère du genre Ribes, comprenant en autres les groseilliers et cassissiers.
Synonyms
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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