drawn

verb

The verdict

“drawn” is uncommon French (frequency #96,830 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#96,830
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé de draw.

Corpus desk

Index FR-drawn · drawn · French

drawn · rank #96,830 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #96,830
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH doomsday

Nearest frequency peer: doomsday (-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 « drawn »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « drawn » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for drawn
PropertyValue
Headworddrawn
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
Letters5
Frequency rank#96,830
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « drawn » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).drawntombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « doomsday » (#96,829), « drette » (#96,831), « Doms » (#96,828). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « drawn » est au #96,830. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

drawn is uncommon French at frequency #96,830 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé de draw.".

drawn has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is drawn, spelled D-R-A-W-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participe passé de draw.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how drawn appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. All three texts play with imagery drawn directly from the lived observation that a she-bear is very dangerous if one interferes with her cubs.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "drawn"?
"drawn" is spelled D-R-A-W-N.
What does "drawn" mean?
As a verb, "drawn" means: Participe passé de draw.
What language does "drawn" come from?
"drawn" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "drawn", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list