draperies
\dʁa.pʁi\
The verdict
“draperies” is uncommon French (frequency #79,232 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,232
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de draperie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-draperies · draperies · French
draperies · rank #79,232 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,232
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dramaturgique
Nearest frequency peer: dramaturgique (-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 « draperies »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dorne
dorne
20,772 corpus weight
- DPT
DPT
20,771 corpus weight
- dramaturgiq…
dramaturgique
20,770 corpus weight
- draperies
draperies
20,769 corpus weight
- durcies
durcies
20,767 corpus weight
- Durieux
Durieux
20,766 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « draperies » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | draperies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁa.pʁi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,232 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « draperies » en français
Rare enough to double-check
draperies is uncommon French at frequency #79,232 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʁa.pʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de draperie.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for draperies, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 draperies, spelled D-R-A-P-E-R-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de 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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