drapée
\dʁa.pe\
The verdict
“drapée” is uncommon French (frequency #68,998 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,998
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de draper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-drapee · drapée · French
drapée · rank #68,998 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,998
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH douaire
Nearest frequency peer: douaire (-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 « drapée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- domaniales
domaniales
31,006 corpus weight
- dorn
dorn
31,005 corpus weight
- douaire
douaire
31,004 corpus weight
- drapée
drapée
31,003 corpus weight
- dreyer
dreyer
31,002 corpus weight
- dro
dro
31,001 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « drapée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drapée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dʁa.pe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,998 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « drapée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
drapée is uncommon French at frequency #68,998 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \dʁa.pe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de draper.".
Zero misspellings are on record for drapée in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is drapée, spelled D-R-A-P-É-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier de draper.
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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