drummer
\dʁœ.mœʁ\
The verdict
“drummer” is uncommon French (frequency #95,816 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,816
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Batteur dans un orchestre de jazz.
Corpus desk
Index FR-drummer · drummer · French
drummer · rank #95,816 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,816
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dupliqué
Nearest frequency peer: dupliqué (+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 « drummer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dni
dni
4,189 corpus weight
- drummer
drummer
4,185 corpus weight
- dupliqué
dupliqué
4,184 corpus weight
- durian
durian
4,183 corpus weight
- débitant
débitant
4,182 corpus weight
- débitent
débitent
4,181 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « drummer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drummer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁœ.mœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,816 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « drummer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
drummer is uncommon French at frequency #95,816 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʁœ.mœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for drummer in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is drummer, spelled D-R-U-M-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Batteur dans un orchestre de jazz.
- 2Synonyme de batteur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how drummer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] une fantaisie de votre serviteur, illustrée d’un montage photographique, genre surréaliste, de Jean-Louis Bédouin, où, horreur ! La tête de Zutty Singleton, drummer, voisinait avec le corps presque nu de Rita Hayworth.
Et c’est Chick Webb qui m’a fait tout cela ! Je le reverrai toujours devant sa batterie, avec son sourire intérieur, j’entendrai toujours le « boum » formidable de son jeu de pied dans la grosse caisse qui m’arrivait en pleine poitrine, je reverrai toujours ses petites mains si intelligentes tirant incompréhensiblement des cymbales, de la caisse claire un…
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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