drainage

\dʁɛ.naʒ\

/\dʁɛ.naʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“drainage” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,701. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#20,701
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de drainer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-drainage · drainage · French

drainage · rank #20,701 · 11 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #20,701
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH doutent

Nearest frequency peer: doutent (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « drainage »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « drainage » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

drainage vs draine
75% similar
drainage vs déminage
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for drainage
PropertyValue
Headworddrainage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dʁɛ.naʒ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#20,701
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « drainage »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.drainagese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « doutent » (#20,700), « duels » (#20,702), « défavorables » (#20,703). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « drainage » est au #20,701. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around drainage (IPA \dʁɛ.naʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,701 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for drainage, with forms such as "darinage", "ddrainage", and "draiange". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "draine", "déminage", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is drainage, spelled D-R-A-I-N-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de drainer.
  2. 2
    Le drainage du rein.
  3. 3
    Le drainage des capitaux.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how drainage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Tous les bons effets du drainage sont si bien appréciés que la plus grande partie des terrains argileux, à sous-sol compacte et humide, du département ont été drainés, et partout les cultivateurs ont eu à se louer de opération.
  2. Habituellement les terrains mouilleux qu’on veut planter sont assainis au préalable et le creusement des fossés de drainage sert à faire des buttes ou des remblais.

This word in other languages

drainage(English)drenagem(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • darinage
  • ddrainage
  • draiange
  • drainaeg
  • drainagge
  • draingae
  • drainnage
  • draniage
  • drianage
  • drrainage
  • rdainage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of drainage - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

darinage2ddrainage1draiange2drainaeg2drainagge1draingae2drainnage1draniage2
Edit distance from "drainage"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "drainage"?
"drainage" is spelled D-R-A-I-N-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \dʁɛ.naʒ\.
What does "drainage" mean?
As a noun, "drainage" means: Action de drainer.
What words are commonly confused with "drainage"?
"drainage" is commonly confused with "draine", "déminage". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "drainage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "drainage" is \dʁɛ.naʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "drainage" come from?
"drainage" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "drainage", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list