drôles

\dʁol\

/\dʁol\/ adj

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The verdict

“drôles” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,839. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#8,839
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
18
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de drôle.

Corpus desk

Index FR-droles · drôles · French

drôles · rank #8,839 · 10 variants · 18 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #8,839
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH doubler

Nearest frequency peer: doubler (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « drôles »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « drôles » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

drôles vs drone
50% similar
drôles vs drones
67% similar
drôles vs Drouet
33% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for drôles
PropertyValue
Headworddrôles
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\dʁol\
Letters6
Frequency rank#8,839
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs18
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « drôles »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).drôlesse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « doubler » (#8,838), « défunt » (#8,840), « dorénavant » (#8,837). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « drôles » est au #8,839. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around drôles (IPA \dʁol\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,839 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de drôle.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for drôles, with forms such as "ddrôles", "drlôes", and "droles". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "drone", "drones", "Drouet", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 drôles, spelled D-R-Ô-L-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de drôle.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. La première surprise vient du fait que les deux trafiquants d’enfants se révèlent plutôt sympathiques, généreux et drôles, avec, notamment, Song Kang-ho, qui jouait le père dans Parasite, de Bong Joon-ho.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddrôles
  • drlôes
  • droles
  • drrôles
  • drôels
  • drôless
  • drôlles
  • drôlse
  • dôrles
  • rdôles

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of drôles - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ddrôles1drlôes2droles1drrôles1drôels2drôless1drôlles1drôlse2
Edit distance from "drôles"

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 "drôles"?
"drôles" is spelled D-R-Ô-L-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \dʁol\.
What does "drôles" mean?
As an adjective, "drôles" means: Pluriel de drôle.
What words are commonly confused with "drôles"?
"drôles" is commonly confused with "drone", "drones", "Drouet". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "drôles"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "drôles" is \dʁol\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "drôles" come from?
"drôles" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

défunt#8,840crayon#8,833Cooper#8,831congés#8,826

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

doubler10 variantsdéputée10 variantsestimée10 variantsclergé10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list