drapeau
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,874
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
drapeau is aFrenchnoun. It means: Étendard qu’on attache à une espèce de lance, de manière qu’elle puisse se déployer et flotter au vent, et qui sert à donner un signal, à indiquer un point de ralliement, à distinguer la nation ou ... Pronounced \dʁa.po\. It ranks #2,874 in French word frequency. Often confused with draper and drapeaux.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drapeau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁa.po\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,874 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for drapeau is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dʁa.po\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,874 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for drapeau, with forms such as "darpeau", "ddrapeau", and "draepau". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "draper", "drapeaux", 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 drapeau, spelled D-R-A-P-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Étendard qu’on attache à une espèce de lance, de manière qu’elle puisse se déployer et flotter au vent, et qui sert à donner un signal, à indiquer un point de ralliement, à distinguer la nation ou le groupement d’individus qui l’arbore.
- 2Enseigne d’une troupe, d’un régiment.
- 3Honneur de toute l’armée, de toute la nation.
- 4Cause pour laquelle on combat.
- 5Haillon, morceau de linge ou d'étoffe.
- 6Bandage destiné à maintenir quelque chose sur le nez.
- 7Tissu que l'on passe sur les dorures d'un livre.
- 8Composition d’un texte aligné seulement d’un côté.
- 9Dette.
- 10Élément noir occultant et rigide, de forme rectangulaire utilisé lors d’un tournage pour sculpter la lumière en l’occultant à des endroits voulus.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: darpeau,ddrapeau,draepau,drapaeu,drapeua,drappeau,drpaeau,drrapeau,rdapeau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for drapeau
Misspelling Variants of "drapeau"
Frequency rank: #2,874 in French
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