drainer

\dʁe.ne\

/\dʁe.ne\/ verb

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The verdict

“drainer” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,758. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#38,758
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Débarrasser un terrain de l’excès d’humidité au moyen de drains ou de canaux de drainage.

Corpus desk

Index FR-drainer · drainer · French

drainer · rank #38,758 · 10 variants · 9 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #38,758
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH dramas

Nearest frequency peer: dramas (+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 « drainer »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « drainer » 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).

drainer vs driver
71% similar
drainer vs draper
71% similar
drainer vs diner
71% similar

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

Key facts for drainer
PropertyValue
Headworddrainer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\dʁe.ne\
Letters7
Frequency rank#38,758
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « drainer »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).drainerse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « dramas » (#38,759), « dossard » (#38,756), « ducale » (#38,760). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « drainer » est au #38,758. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around drainer (IPA \dʁe.ne\), averb. Corpus frequency is #38,758 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for drainer, with forms such as "dariner", "ddrainer", and "draienr". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "driver", "draper", "diner", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is drainer, spelled D-R-A-I-N-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Débarrasser un terrain de l’excès d’humidité au moyen de drains ou de canaux de drainage.
  2. 2
    Faire affluer des capitaux dans une banque, dans une caisse.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how drainer 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. Cet agent d’affaires est parvenu à drainer les épargnes de toute la région.

This word in other languages

drain(English)entwässern(Deutsch)drenar(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • dariner
  • ddrainer
  • draienr
  • drainerr
  • drainner
  • drainre
  • dranier
  • drianer
  • drrainer
  • rdainer

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of drainer - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

dariner2ddrainer1draienr2drainerr1drainner1drainre2dranier2drianer2
Edit distance from "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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "drainer"?
"drainer" is spelled D-R-A-I-N-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \dʁe.ne\.
What does "drainer" mean?
As a verb, "drainer" means: Débarrasser un terrain de l’excès d’humidité au moyen de drains ou de canaux de drainage.
What words are commonly confused with "drainer"?
"drainer" is commonly confused with "driver", "draper", "diner". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "drainer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "drainer" is \dʁe.ne\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "drainer" come from?
"drainer" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

dossard#38,756dockers#38,754déraper#38,772delgado#38,743

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

donnerez10 variantsdévolue10 variantsencourt10 variantsenduits10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list