tribe
\tʁib\
The verdict
“tribe” is uncommon French (frequency #66,398 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,398
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sous-genre de la techno issu de l’univers des free party dans les années 1990.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tribe · tribe · French
tribe · rank #66,398 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,398
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Trentin
Nearest frequency peer: Trentin (-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 « tribe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- travaillère…
travaillèrent
33,606 corpus weight
- traversière
traversière
33,605 corpus weight
- Trentin
Trentin
33,604 corpus weight
- tribe
tribe
33,603 corpus weight
- tribunat
tribunat
33,602 corpus weight
- trillions
trillions
33,600 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tribe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tribe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁib\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tribe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tribe is uncommon French at frequency #66,398 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁib\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sous-genre de la techno issu de l’univers des free party dans les années 1990.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tribe, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tribe, spelled T-R-I-B-E.
Definition
- 1Sous-genre de la techno issu de l’univers des free party dans les années 1990.
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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