draine
French, noun
draine is spelled D-R-A-I-N-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 44,377th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Draine is a French feminine noun meaning “mistle thrush” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of drainer. With an accent, drainé is a different word: “past participle of drainer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Grive draine”.
What does draine mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemistle thrush
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of drainer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Grive draine.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of draine
- draines plural
- drainée feminine
- drainés masculine plural
- drainées feminine plural
- drenne
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is draine in French?
draine appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).