riper
French, verb/ʁi.pe/
riper is spelled R-I-P-E-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 41 million words in written French, the 202,924th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Riper is a French verb meaning “to slip” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Déplacer un objet en le faisant glisser”.
What does riper mean in English?
verb
- 1
to slip
- 2
to go away, to take off
- 3
to scrape
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Déplacer un objet en le faisant glisser. 2. Gratter avec une ripe. 3. Extraire directement d'un support enregistré des données numériques en vue de les reporter sur un autre support, sans recourir à la conversion analogique intermédiaire habituellement nécessaire. 4. S’en aller (par exemple pour s’enfuir).
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 riper
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- ripant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- ripé participle past
- ripe first-person indicative present
- ripes indicative present second-person
- ripons first-person indicative plural
- ripez indicative plural present
- ripent indicative plural present
- ripais first-person imperfect indicative
- ripait imperfect indicative singular
- ripions first-person imperfect indicative
- ripiez imperfect indicative plural
- ripaient imperfect indicative plural
- ripai first-person historic indicative
- ripas historic indicative past
- ripa historic indicative past
- ripâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce riper?
- /ʁi.pe/
- \ʁi.pe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is riper in French?
riper appears about once in every 41 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).