ripper
\ʁi.pœʁ\
The verdict
“ripper” is uncommon French (frequency #61,101 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,101
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Équipement que l’on monte à l’arrière d’un tracteur ou d’un engin de chantier, constitué par un cadre le plus souvent articulé, muni d’une ou plusieurs dents, et servant à défoncer profondément le ...
Corpus desk
Index FR-ripper · ripper · French
ripper · rank #61,101 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,101
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rifle
Nearest frequency peer: rifle (-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 « ripper »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rhumatisme
rhumatisme
38,906 corpus weight
- rifle
rifle
38,901 corpus weight
- ripper
ripper
38,900 corpus weight
- riveraine
riveraine
38,898 corpus weight
- ronflements
ronflements
38,896 corpus weight
- rongés
rongés
38,895 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ripper » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ripper |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.pœʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,101 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ripper » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ripper is uncommon French at frequency #61,101 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁi.pœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
ripper doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ripper, spelled R-I-P-P-E-R.
Definition
- 1Équipement que l’on monte à l’arrière d’un tracteur ou d’un engin de chantier, constitué par un cadre le plus souvent articulé, muni d’une ou plusieurs dents, et servant à défoncer profondément le sol.
- 2Logiciel permettant de ripper un disque compact ou un DVD.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ripper appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les bulldozers, leur lame et leur ripper aux grosses dents fichées dans la boue, les draglines au godet béant, le cordon latéral de la terre déplacée par les pelles mécaniques devenaient notre seule guirlande sous le ciel noir éclairé par les phares des camions.
L’assec d’été est également à conseiller. On le complète par un labour ou le passage d’un ripper qui fait crever les rhizomes des nénuphars et des roseaux.
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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