drame
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drame |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁam\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,326 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Pièce de théâtre (tragique ou comique).
- 2Pièce de théâtre en vers ou en prose, entre la tragédie et la comédie (sens apparu dans la première moitié du XVIIIᵉ siècle).
- 3Genre cinématographique qui traite de situations généralement non-épiques dans un contexte sérieux, sur un ton plus susceptible d’inspirer la tristesse que le rire.
- 4Événement pénible ou suite d’événements qui émeuvent, qui touchent.
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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"
Frequency rank: #3,326 in French
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