drain
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#33,222
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
drain is aFrenchnoun. It means: Une des trois électrodes d’un transistor à effet de champ (les deux autres sont appelées source et grille). Il joue un rôle analogue à l’anode dans les tubes à vide, ou le collecteur dans les trans... Pronounced \dʁɛ̃\. Often confused with drap and dray.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #33,222 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for drain is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dʁɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #33,222 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for drain, with forms such as "darin", "ddrain", and "drainn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "drap", "dray", "droit", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is drain, spelled D-R-A-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Une des trois électrodes d’un transistor à effet de champ (les deux autres sont appelées source et grille). Il joue un rôle analogue à l’anode dans les tubes à vide, ou le collecteur dans les transistors bipolaires.
- 2Fossé souterrain qui sert à faire écouler l’eau dans les terres trop humides.
- 3Il se dit aussi d’un tuyau poreux qui sert au même usage.
- 4Mèche ou tube percé de trous adapté dans une plaie après une opération chirurgicale afin d’en extraire les fluides viciés pour faciliter l’écoulement du pus d’un foyer infectieux ou, en l’absence d’infection, du sang et de la lymphe qui risqueraient de s’accumuler lors de la cicatrisation et de provoquer un hématome.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: darin,ddrain,drainn,drani,drian,drrain
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for drain
Misspelling Variants of "drain"
Frequency rank: #33,222 in French
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