drapés
\dʁa.pe\
The verdict
“drapés” is uncommon French (frequency #62,205 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,205
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de drapé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-drapes · drapés · French
drapés · rank #62,205 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,205
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dotent
Nearest frequency peer: dotent (-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 « drapés »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- DLL
DLL
37,799 corpus weight
- dormirais
dormirais
37,798 corpus weight
- dotent
dotent
37,797 corpus weight
- drapés
drapés
37,796 corpus weight
- Dries
Dries
37,794 corpus weight
- dud
dud
37,793 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « drapés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drapés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dʁa.pe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,205 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « drapés » en français
Rare enough to double-check
drapés is uncommon French at frequency #62,205 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dʁa.pe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de drapé.".
drapés doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is drapés, spelled D-R-A-P-É-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de drapé.
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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