drapier
\dʁa.pje\
The verdict
“drapier” is uncommon French (frequency #69,763 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,763
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la production ou au commerce des draps.
Corpus desk
Index FR-drapier · drapier · French
drapier · rank #69,763 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,763
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH drugstore
Nearest frequency peer: drugstore (+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 « drapier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- diverti
diverti
30,242 corpus weight
- Dominici
Dominici
30,240 corpus weight
- drapier
drapier
30,238 corpus weight
- drugstore
drugstore
30,237 corpus weight
- Drupal
Drupal
30,235 corpus weight
- dua
dua
30,234 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « drapier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drapier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dʁa.pje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,763 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « drapier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
drapier is uncommon French at frequency #69,763 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dʁa.pje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à la production ou au commerce des draps.".
Zero misspellings are on record for drapier in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 drapier, spelled D-R-A-P-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la production ou au commerce des draps.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how drapier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sedan, cette perle de l’industrie drapière, est complètement dévalisée; les Boches n'y ont laissé que 3 % du matériel de 1914 […].
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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