drachma
/ˈdɹæk.mə/
"drachma" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“drachma” is uncommon English (frequency #92,548 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,548
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The currency of Greece in ancient times and again from 1832 until 2001, with the symbol ₯, since replaced by the euro.
Corpus desk
Index EN-drachma · drachma · English
drachma · rank #92,548 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,548
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dreamboat
Nearest frequency peer: dreamboat (+2 rank slots)
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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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “drachma”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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What this shows Bars show where “drachma” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drachma |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈdɹæk.mə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #92,548 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “drachma” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
drachma is uncommon English at frequency #92,548 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈdɹæk.mə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for drachma in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from Latin drachma and its etymon Doric Greek δρᾰχμᾱ́ (drăkhmā́). Doublet of dram, diram, dirham, dirhem, adarme, and dam. The correct English form is drachma, spelled D-R-A-C-H-M-A.
Definition
- 1The currency of Greece in ancient times and again from 1832 until 2001, with the symbol ₯, since replaced by the euro.
- 2A coin worth one drachma.
- 3An Ancient Greek weight of about 66.5 grains, or 4.3 grams.
- 4A later Greek weight equal to a gram.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how drachma appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
'Who is he, and where does he come from?' said I, 'and what does he charge?' 'Evenus of Paros, Socrates,' said he, 'and his fee is 500 drachmae.' I felt that Evenus was to be congratulated if he really was a master of this art and taught it at such a moderate fee.
2008, Philip Matyszak, Ancient Athens on Five Drachmas a Day (title of the book)
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin drachma and its etymon Doric Greek δρᾰχμᾱ́ (drăkhmā́). Doublet of dram, diram, dirham, dirhem, adarme, and dam.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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