drive-in
\dʁaj.vin\
The verdict
“drive-in” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ciné-parc, pratique américaine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-drive-in · drive-in · French
drive-in · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drive-in |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁaj.vin\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « drive-in » en français
Rare enough to double-check
drive-in is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʁaj.vin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for drive-in in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 drive-in, spelled D-R-I-V-E---I-N.
Definition
- 1Ciné-parc, pratique américaine.
- 2Lieu d'un établissement où le conducteur d'un véhicule motorisé à l'arrêt peut échanger avec un guichetier et éventuellement où l'on peut rentrer avec sa voiture
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how drive-in appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’avais l’impression de me trouver dans un drive-in, avec, devant mon pare-brise à la place de l’écran géant, l’immeuble carré en briques rouges dont les vitres opaques étaient illuminées de l’intérieur.
L'essor des drive in, qui fut grand après 1948 semble désormais stoppé et ce genre de cinémas est depuis deux ou trois ans en régression.
This word in other languages
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.