drapeau
\dʁa.po\
The verdict
“drapeau” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #2,874 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #2,874
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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 ...
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| 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) |
Where “drapeau” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for drapeau is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for drapeau, with forms such as "darpeau", "ddrapeau", and "draepau". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "draper", "drapeaux", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is drapeau, spelled D-R-A-P-E-A-U.
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.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: darpeau,ddrapeau,draepau,drapaeu,drapeua,drappeau,drpaeau,drrapeau,rdapeau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of drapeau - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “drapeau”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-R-A-P-E-A-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \dʁa.po\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “draper” - see the side-by-side comparison. drapeau vs draper
- 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.