drape
\dʁap\
The verdict
“drape” is uncommon French (frequency #83,797 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,797
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de draper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-drape · drape · French
drape · rank #83,797 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,797
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH draguée
Nearest frequency peer: draguée (-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 « drape »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Donnet
Donnet
16,208 corpus weight
- dormiras
dormiras
16,207 corpus weight
- draguée
draguée
16,205 corpus weight
- drape
drape
16,204 corpus weight
- dubitatifs
dubitatifs
16,203 corpus weight
- Durbuy
Durbuy
16,202 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « drape » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drape |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dʁap\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,797 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « drape » en français
Rare enough to double-check
drape is uncommon French at frequency #83,797 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \dʁap\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
drape doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is drape, spelled D-R-A-P-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de draper.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de draper.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de draper.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de draper.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de draper.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how drape appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le même geste drape les quatre sœurs, le même sourire et la même coiffure les raphaélisent — hélas! — et j’irai même jusqu’à dire que le petit amour est leur frère Benjamin…
À mesure que l’agitation des autres nous prend en otage, tout se drape d’une teinture fausse et frénétique, tout commence à se désamabiliser…
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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