drainent
\dʁɛn\
The verdict
“drainent” is uncommon French (frequency #74,719 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,719
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de drainer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-drainent · drainent · French
drainent · rank #74,719 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,719
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH doubleurs
Nearest frequency peer: doubleurs (-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 « drainent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dopée
dopée
25,284 corpus weight
- doubleurs
doubleurs
25,283 corpus weight
- drainent
drainent
25,282 corpus weight
- drives
drives
25,281 corpus weight
- droguent
droguent
25,280 corpus weight
- DSN
DSN
25,279 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « drainent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drainent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dʁɛn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,719 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « drainent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
drainent is uncommon French at frequency #74,719 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \dʁɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for drainent in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is drainent, spelled D-R-A-I-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de drainer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de drainer.
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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