Riboud
\ʁi.bu\
The verdict
“Riboud” is uncommon French (frequency #56,887 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,887
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-riboud · Riboud · French
Riboud · rank #56,887 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,887
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ribes
Nearest frequency peer: ribes (-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 « Riboud »
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 « Riboud » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Riboud |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.bu\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,887 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Riboud » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Riboud is uncommon French at frequency #56,887 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʁi.bu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Riboud in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Riboud, spelled R-I-B-O-U-D.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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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