ripou
\ʁi.pu\
The verdict
“ripou” is uncommon French (frequency #84,259 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,259
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personnage corrompu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ripou · ripou · French
ripou · rank #84,259 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,259
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH riziculture
Nearest frequency peer: riziculture (+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 « ripou »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rid
rid
15,746 corpus weight
- rigidités
rigidités
15,745 corpus weight
- rigolera
rigolera
15,744 corpus weight
- ripou
ripou
15,742 corpus weight
- riziculture
riziculture
15,741 corpus weight
- rognon
rognon
15,739 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ripou » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ripou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.pu\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #84,259 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ripou » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ripou is uncommon French at frequency #84,259 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁi.pu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
ripou has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ripou, spelled R-I-P-O-U.
Definition
- 1Personnage corrompu.
- 2Policier corrompu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ripou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est un peu écolo, un peu don Quichotte, du genre à militer contre un tunnel dans les Pyrénées pour sauver des ours, mais c'est aussi un pourfendeur de la corruption en politique, redoutable quel que soit le bord des ripous !
Des ripoux rackettant des gens désespérés ou enragés d’attendre, en vain, un logement, c’est récurrent, et personne ne semble avoir la clé…
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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