drome
\dʁɔm\
The verdict
“drome” is uncommon French (frequency #72,259 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,259
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faisceau, assemblage flottant de plusieurs pièces de bois, telles que mâts, vergues, bouts-dehors, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-drome · drome · French
drome · rank #72,259 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,259
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH drogo
Nearest frequency peer: drogo (-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 « drome »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dring
dring
27,744 corpus weight
- drogo
drogo
27,743 corpus weight
- drome
drome
27,742 corpus weight
- Duchêne
Duchêne
27,741 corpus weight
- dyspnée
dyspnée
27,739 corpus weight
- déambulant
déambulant
27,738 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « drome » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drome |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁɔm\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #72,259 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « drome » en français
Rare enough to double-check
drome is uncommon French at frequency #72,259 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʁɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
drome doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is drome, spelled D-R-O-M-E.
Definition
- 1Faisceau, assemblage flottant de plusieurs pièces de bois, telles que mâts, vergues, bouts-dehors, etc.
- 2Réunion des mâts, vergues, bouts-dehors, etc., qui sont embarqués pour servir de rechange sur un bâtiment.
- 3Grosse pièce de charpente, qui autrefois, servait dans le marteau d'une forge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how drome appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À l’avant du paquebot, nombreux passagers, […], – de pauvres diables, enfin, étendus sur les dromes, contre les parois, le long des prélarts.
— Une drome de futailles, etc.
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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