drachmes
\dʁakm\
The verdict
“drachmes” is uncommon French (frequency #75,612 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,612
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de drachme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-drachmes · drachmes · French
drachmes · rank #75,612 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,612
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Doyon
Nearest frequency peer: Doyon (-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 « drachmes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dori
dori
24,392 corpus weight
- douillette
douillette
24,391 corpus weight
- Doyon
Doyon
24,390 corpus weight
- drachmes
drachmes
24,389 corpus weight
- dragan
dragan
24,388 corpus weight
- dragonne
dragonne
24,387 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « drachmes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drachmes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁakm\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « drachmes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
drachmes is uncommon French at frequency #75,612 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʁakm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de drachme.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for drachmes, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is drachmes, spelled D-R-A-C-H-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de drachme.
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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