ribot
\ʁi.bo\
The verdict
“ribot” is uncommon French (frequency #51,707 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,707
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pilon de la baratte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ribot · ribot · French
ribot · rank #51,707 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,707
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH retentir
Nearest frequency peer: retentir (-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 « ribot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- reptilien
reptilien
48,297 corpus weight
- resservir
resservir
48,296 corpus weight
- retentir
retentir
48,295 corpus weight
- ribot
ribot
48,294 corpus weight
- rima
rima
48,293 corpus weight
- rions
rions
48,292 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ribot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ribot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.bo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #51,707 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ribot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ribot is uncommon French at frequency #51,707 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁi.bo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pilon de la baratte.".
ribot doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ribot, spelled R-I-B-O-T.
Definition
- 1Pilon de la baratte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ribot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout son lot se composait d’une faucille, d’un coq et d’un ribot, ou si vous aimez mieux, d’un pilon à faire le beurre
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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