dramatic
\dɹəˈmæt.ɪk\
The verdict
“dramatic” is uncommon French (frequency #97,874 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,874
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au drame.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dramatic · dramatic · French
dramatic · rank #97,874 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,874
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH doutée
Nearest frequency peer: doutée (-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 « dramatic »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Domitille
Domitille
2,130 corpus weight
- douterait
douterait
2,129 corpus weight
- doutée
doutée
2,128 corpus weight
- dramatic
dramatic
2,127 corpus weight
- dresses
dresses
2,125 corpus weight
- dri
dri
2,124 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dramatic » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dramatic |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dɹəˈmæt.ɪk\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,874 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dramatic » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dramatic is uncommon French at frequency #97,874 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dɹəˈmæt.ɪk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for dramatic in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is dramatic, spelled D-R-A-M-A-T-I-C.
Definition
- 1Relatif au drame.
- 2Extrême, émouvant, dramatique.
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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