drainant
\dʁɛ.nɑ̃\
The verdict
“drainant” is uncommon French (frequency #62,930 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,930
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui draine, permet l’écoulement de l’eau ou d’un autre liquide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-drainant · drainant · French
drainant · rank #62,930 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,930
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dosettes
Nearest frequency peer: dosettes (-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 « drainant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- donneriez
donneriez
37,074 corpus weight
- dosettes
dosettes
37,072 corpus weight
- drainant
drainant
37,071 corpus weight
- dudu
dudu
37,070 corpus weight
- Duhaime
Duhaime
37,069 corpus weight
- Dupontel
Dupontel
37,068 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « drainant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drainant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dʁɛ.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,930 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « drainant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
drainant is uncommon French at frequency #62,930 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dʁɛ.nɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for drainant, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is drainant, spelled D-R-A-I-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui draine, permet l’écoulement de l’eau ou d’un autre liquide.
- 2Diurétique, qui agit contre la rétention d’eau et favorise l’élimination des toxines du corps.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how drainant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans plusieurs appareils l’eau filtrée est collectée à la base du sable par une espèce de réseau de tuyaux drainants.
Les sols sablo-argileux drainants semblent les plus conseillés pour une alimentation minérale et hydrique régulière.
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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