ripostes
\ʁi.pɔst\
The verdict
“ripostes” is uncommon French (frequency #78,811 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,811
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de riposte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ripostes · ripostes · French
ripostes · rank #78,811 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,811
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Rijeka
Nearest frequency peer: Rijeka (-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 « ripostes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Rhoda
Rhoda
21,193 corpus weight
- rififi
rififi
21,192 corpus weight
- Rijeka
Rijeka
21,191 corpus weight
- ripostes
ripostes
21,190 corpus weight
- rist
rist
21,189 corpus weight
- Romaric
Romaric
21,188 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ripostes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ripostes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.pɔst\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #78,811 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ripostes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ripostes is uncommon French at frequency #78,811 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁi.pɔst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de riposte.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ripostes in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is ripostes, spelled R-I-P-O-S-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de riposte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ripostes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au moins jusqu’au jour où auront été trouvées des techniques et des ripostes meilleures.
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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