drap mortuaire
\dʁa mɔʁ.tɥɛʁ\
The verdict
“drap mortuaire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pièce d’étoffe, souvent de velours, jetée sur un cercueil en guise d’ornement cérémoniel, et qu’elle recouvre complètement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-drap-mortuaire · drap mortuaire · French
drap mortuaire · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| 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) |
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Rare enough to double-check
drap mortuaire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʁa mɔʁ.tɥɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how drap mortuaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voisin cloua le couvercle de la bière, jeta sur elle un « drap mortuaire » et la remit aux porteurs.
Les comètes d’argent dans un champ noir semées, Larmes blanches du drap mortuaire des nuits.
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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.