draveur
\dʁav.œʁ\
The verdict
“draveur” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Homme qui pratique la drave, c'est à dire qui manipule des billes de bois (billots, pitounes, troncs d'arbre) notamment pour les ramener à l'eau ou les diriger (ex.: dans le courant, vers des baune...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | draveur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁav.œʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “draveur” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for draveur is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dʁav.œʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Homme qui pratique la drave, c'est à dire qui manipule des billes de bois (billots, pitounes, troncs d'arbre) notamment pour les ramener à l'eau ou les diriger (ex.: dans le courant, vers des baune...".
No misspelling variants are generated for draveur in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 draveur, spelled D-R-A-V-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Homme qui pratique la drave, c'est à dire qui manipule des billes de bois (billots, pitounes, troncs d'arbre) notamment pour les ramener à l'eau ou les diriger (ex.: dans le courant, vers des baunes, des moulins à scie ou des papetières) habituellement sur des rivières et aussi sur certains plans d'eau.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “draveur”
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- The one correct French spelling is D-R-A-V-E-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \dʁav.œʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.