grive draine
\ɡʁiv dʁɛn\
The verdict
“grive draine” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Espèce de petit oiseau passereau, grosse grive d'Eurasie aux parties supérieures brunes et aux inférieures tachées et dont le dessous de l'aile en vol est blanc.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grive draine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁiv dʁɛn\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “grive draine” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for grive draine is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁiv dʁɛn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Espèce de petit oiseau passereau, grosse grive d'Eurasie aux parties supérieures brunes et aux inférieures tachées et dont le dessous de l'aile en vol est blanc.".
No misspelling variants are generated for grive draine in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is grive draine, spelled G-R-I-V-E- -D-R-A-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce de petit oiseau passereau, grosse grive d'Eurasie aux parties supérieures brunes et aux inférieures tachées et dont le dessous de l'aile en vol est blanc.
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- The one correct French spelling is G-R-I-V-E- -D-R-A-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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