draw
\dɹɔː\
The verdict
“draw” is uncommon French (frequency #50,174 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,174
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tirage au sort.
Corpus desk
Index FR-draw · draw · French
draw · rank #50,174 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,174
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH draco
Nearest frequency peer: draco (-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 « draw »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- doctorats
doctorats
49,830 corpus weight
- Domitien
Domitien
49,829 corpus weight
- draco
draco
49,828 corpus weight
- draw
draw
49,827 corpus weight
- déballe
déballe
49,825 corpus weight
- décantation
décantation
49,824 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « draw » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | draw |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɹɔː\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #50,174 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « draw » en français
Rare enough to double-check
draw is uncommon French at frequency #50,174 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɹɔː\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for draw, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is draw, spelled D-R-A-W.
Definition
- 1Tirage au sort.
- 2Match nul.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how draw appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the card game, everything depended on the next draw.
She fought the match to a draw.
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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