drapes
/dɹeɪps/noun, verb
drapes is spelled D-R-A-P-E-S: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 32,393rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, drapes means “Heavy cloth hung over a window” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in drapes?
| Letters | 6: D-R-A-P-E-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 32,393rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is drapes?
Drapes appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 32,393rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce drapes?
- /dɹeɪps/
Drapes has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What rhymes with drapes?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as drapes.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: spread, spader.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does drapes mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Heavy cloth hung over a window.
- 2
plural of drape
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of drape
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Drapes in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Plural only: heavy cloth hung over a window:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.