drives
\dʁiv\
The verdict
“drives” is uncommon French (frequency #74,720 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,720
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de drive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-drives · drives · French
drives · rank #74,720 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,720
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH drainent
Nearest frequency peer: drainent (-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 « drives »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dopée
dopée
25,284 corpus weight
- doubleurs
doubleurs
25,283 corpus weight
- drainent
drainent
25,282 corpus weight
- drives
drives
25,281 corpus weight
- droguent
droguent
25,280 corpus weight
- DSN
DSN
25,279 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « drives » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁiv\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,720 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « drives » en français
Rare enough to double-check
drives is uncommon French at frequency #74,720 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʁiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de drive.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for drives in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is drives, spelled D-R-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de drive.
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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