drame

/\dʁam\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,326

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

drame is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pièce de théâtre (tragique ou comique). Pronounced \dʁam\. It ranks #3,326 in French word frequency. Often confused with dre and drap.

Key facts for drame
PropertyValue
Headworddrame
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dʁam\
Letters5
Frequency rank#3,326
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of drame in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for drame is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dʁam\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,326 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for drame, with forms such as "darme", "ddrame", and "draem". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dre", "drap", "drum", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is drame, spelled D-R-A-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pièce de théâtre (tragique ou comique).
  2. 2
    Pièce de théâtre en vers ou en prose, entre la tragédie et la comédie (sens apparu dans la première moitié du XVIIIᵉ siècle).
  3. 3
    Genre cinématographique qui traite de situations généralement non-épiques dans un contexte sérieux, sur un ton plus susceptible d’inspirer la tristesse que le rire.
  4. 4
    Événement pénible ou suite d’événements qui émeuvent, qui touchent.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: darme,ddrame,draem,dramme,drmae,drrame,rdame

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for drame

Misspelling Variants of "drame"

darme5ddrame6draem5dramme6drmae5drrame6rdame5
Misspelling Variants of "drame"

Frequency rank: #3,326 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "drame"?
"drame" is spelled D-R-A-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \dʁam\.
What does "drame" mean?
As a noun, "drame" means: Pièce de théâtre (tragique ou comique).
What words are commonly confused with "drame"?
"drame" is commonly confused with "dre", "drap", "drum". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "drame"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "drame" is \dʁam\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "drame" come from?
"drame" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.