drei
\dʀaɪ̯\
The verdict
“drei” is uncommon French (frequency #86,627 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,627
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Trois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-drei · drei · French
drei · rank #86,627 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,627
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH draguait
Nearest frequency peer: draguait (-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 « drei »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- doron
doron
13,377 corpus weight
- Dougherty
Dougherty
13,376 corpus weight
- draguait
draguait
13,375 corpus weight
- drei
drei
13,374 corpus weight
- Dufourcq
Dufourcq
13,372 corpus weight
- Dufy
Dufy
13,371 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « drei » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drei |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dʀaɪ̯\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #86,627 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « drei » en français
Rare enough to double-check
drei is uncommon French at frequency #86,627 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dʀaɪ̯\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for drei, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is drei, spelled D-R-E-I.
Definition
- 1Trois.
- 2Trois heures ou quinze heures, ( sous-entendant Uhr ).
- 3Trois ans, ( sous-entendant Jahr ).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how drei appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die drei Grazien.
Das Wort „hat“ hat drei Buchstaben.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).