drôlerie
\dʁol.ʁi\
The verdict
“drôlerie” is uncommon French (frequency #57,216 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,216
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Parole ou action drôle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-drolerie · drôlerie · French
drôlerie · rank #57,216 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,216
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dressez
Nearest frequency peer: dressez (-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 « drôlerie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dissidentes
dissidentes
42,788 corpus weight
- doctoral
doctoral
42,787 corpus weight
- dressez
dressez
42,786 corpus weight
- drôlerie
drôlerie
42,785 corpus weight
- duraient
duraient
42,784 corpus weight
- débonnaire
débonnaire
42,782 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « drôlerie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drôlerie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁol.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,216 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « drôlerie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
drôlerie is uncommon French at frequency #57,216 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʁol.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for drôlerie, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is drôlerie, spelled D-R-Ô-L-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Parole ou action drôle.
- 2Objet drôle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how drôlerie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous manquerons plutôt d’originalité et de drôlerie, bien résolus à marcher sur nos deux pieds, tout simplement […]
Elle eût volontiers attaché au bas de ses jupes une foule de petites poupées bizarres, comme le font les vieilles bohémiennes qui vous disent la bonne aventure d’une manière menaçante, et qu’on rencontre en plein midi sous les arceaux des ruines romaines ; toutes drôleries, du reste, dont le romantique Samuel, l’un des derniers romantiques que possède la…
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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