draperie
\dʁa.pʁi\
The verdict
“draperie” is uncommon French (frequency #76,506 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,506
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manufacture ou commerce de drap.
Corpus desk
Index FR-draperie · draperie · French
draperie · rank #76,506 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,506
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Doumergue
Nearest frequency peer: Doumergue (-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 « draperie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- doublez
doublez
23,498 corpus weight
- Doucouré
Doucouré
23,497 corpus weight
- Doumergue
Doumergue
23,496 corpus weight
- draperie
draperie
23,495 corpus weight
- dressaient
dressaient
23,494 corpus weight
- droïdes
droïdes
23,493 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « draperie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | draperie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁa.pʁi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,506 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « draperie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
draperie is uncommon French at frequency #76,506 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʁa.pʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for draperie in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is draperie, spelled D-R-A-P-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Manufacture ou commerce de drap.
- 2Représentation d’une étoffe, d’un vêtement ample et formant des plis.
- 3Stalactite ayant la forme de tissus plissés.
- 4Ornements de tapisserie ou en général d’étoffes diverses qui ont une certaine ampleur et qui forment des plis.
- 5Grosse épingle courte.
- 6Action qui consiste à couvrir quelque chose d'un tissu noir en signe de deuil.
- 7Privilège de porter le deuil de cour.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how draperie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il employait maintenant les raclures de routes, les curures de fossés, les cendres et les escarbilles de fourneaux, surtout les déchets de laine, dont il avait acheté le balayage dans une draperie de Châteaudun.
Une draperie bien jetée. — Le mouvement d’une draperie.
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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