drachme
\dʁakm\
The verdict
“drachme” is uncommon French (frequency #89,617 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,617
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poids grec équivalant à 4 grammes 36 centigrammes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-drachme · drachme · French
drachme · rank #89,617 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,617
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH doze
Nearest frequency peer: doze (-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 « drachme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dominika
dominika
10,387 corpus weight
- dorrit
dorrit
10,386 corpus weight
- doze
doze
10,385 corpus weight
- drachme
drachme
10,384 corpus weight
- dreaming
dreaming
10,383 corpus weight
- drue
drue
10,382 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « drachme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drachme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁakm\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #89,617 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « drachme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
drachme is uncommon French at frequency #89,617 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʁakm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for drachme in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is drachme, spelled D-R-A-C-H-M-E.
Definition
- 1Poids grec équivalant à 4 grammes 36 centigrammes.
- 2Nom donné à plusieurs monnaies grecques et proche-orientales antiques.
- 3Monnaie grecque avant l’euro. Son symbole est ₯ (Unicode U+20AF).
- 4Huitième partie de l’once, ou gros, dans les anciennes mesures de pharmacie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how drachme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’obole de deux drachmes que les Juifs de la diaspora avaient à cœur d’envoyer chaque année à Jérusalem pour l’entretien du Temple, il a été décidé qu'ils la paieraient toujours mais qu’elle serait désormais affectée à l’entretien du Capitole, c'est-à-dire au culte des dieux païens.
Fin février, et pour la première fois là aussi, un sondage montrait que 55 % des Grecs préféreraient une rupture des négociations avec les créanciers et un retour à la drachme, plutôt que de nouvelles mesures d’austérité.
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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