drap mortuaire
\dʁa mɔʁ.tɥɛʁ\
The verdict
“drap mortuaire” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pièce d’étoffe, souvent de velours, jetée sur un cercueil en guise d’ornement cérémoniel, et qu’elle recouvre complètement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drap mortuaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁa mɔʁ.tɥɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “drap mortuaire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for drap mortuaire is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dʁa mɔʁ.tɥɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
drap mortuaire has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is drap mortuaire, spelled D-R-A-P- -M-O-R-T-U-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Pièce d’étoffe, souvent de velours, jetée sur un cercueil en guise d’ornement cérémoniel, et qu’elle recouvre complètement.
- 2Nom donné à une variété de marbre noir sans inclusion et dont la couleur est uniforme ; on le nomme aussi noir antique.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “drap mortuaire”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-R-A-P- -M-O-R-T-U-A-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \dʁa mɔʁ.tɥɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.