ripaille
\ʁi.pɑj\
The verdict
“ripaille” is uncommon French (frequency #86,124 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,124
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grande chère ; repas où on mange avec excès.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ripaille · ripaille · French
ripaille · rank #86,124 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,124
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH revigorant
Nearest frequency peer: revigorant (-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 « ripaille »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ressaisissez
ressaisissez
13,880 corpus weight
- rets
rets
13,879 corpus weight
- revigorant
revigorant
13,878 corpus weight
- ripaille
ripaille
13,877 corpus weight
- rishi
rishi
13,876 corpus weight
- romandes
romandes
13,875 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ripaille » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ripaille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.pɑj\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,124 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ripaille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ripaille is uncommon French at frequency #86,124 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁi.pɑj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Grande chère ; repas où on mange avec excès.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ripaille in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ripaille, spelled R-I-P-A-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Grande chère ; repas où on mange avec excès.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ripaille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est triste de penser, qu’alors que l’on apporte tant de soin à mener à bien les boutures de géranium ou les greffes d’arbres, fruitiers, un très grand nombre de citoyens sont conçus suite à de crapuleuses ripailles dont on se croit obligé d’assaisonner l’anniversaire de la naissance du Christ, ou celle de la prise de la Bastille.
Bordeaux, le forgeron, lui-même, qui ce jour-là était en ripaille, s’arracha aux délices de l’auberge du Petit-Salé dans laquelle il buvait.
This word in other languages
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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