dram
\dʁam\
The verdict
“dram” is uncommon French (frequency #85,650 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,650
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité monétaire arménienne, dont le code ISO 4217 est AMD.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dram · dram · French
dram · rank #85,650 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,650
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH drafté
Nearest frequency peer: drafté (-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 « dram »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- doum
doum
14,354 corpus weight
- doutera
doutera
14,353 corpus weight
- drafté
drafté
14,352 corpus weight
- dram
dram
14,351 corpus weight
- dressed
dressed
14,350 corpus weight
- durcis
durcis
14,348 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dram » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dram |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁam\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #85,650 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dram » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dram is uncommon French at frequency #85,650 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʁam\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Unité monétaire arménienne, dont le code ISO 4217 est AMD.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for dram, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is dram, spelled D-R-A-M.
Definition
- 1Unité monétaire arménienne, dont le code ISO 4217 est AMD.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dram appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le voyage sera gratuit pour les habitants de la région, tandis que les autres devront payer 3.000 drams arméniens (six euros).
This word in other languages
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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