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ride

French, noun

ride is spelled R-I-D-E (4 letters) and appears 2.6 times per million words in written French, the 17,365th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ride is a French feminine noun meaning “wrinkle, line (on face etc.)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of rider. With an accent, ridé is a different word: “wrinkled”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pli de la peau qui se produit sur le visage, sur les mains, et qui est ordinairement l’effet de l’âge”.

What does ride mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininewrinkle, line (on face etc.)

  2. 2

    feminineripple

  3. 3

    feminineridge

verb

  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

adjective

as ridé
  1. 1

    wrinkled

verb

as ridé
  1. 1

    past participle of rider

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Couvert de rides.

noun: 1. Pli de la peau qui se produit sur le visage, sur les mains, et qui est ordinairement l’effet de l’âge. 2. Signe de vieillissement, de désuétude, flétrissement ou d’obsolescence. 3. Petit pli qui apparaît à la surface d’un liquide, sous l’effet d’un souffle d’air. 4. Grand pli qu’offre un terrain.

noun: 1. Type de cymbale.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of ride

  • rides plural
  • ridée feminine
  • ridés masculine plural
  • ridées feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to ride

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is ride in French?

ride appears 2.6 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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