adragant

noun

"adragant" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“adragant” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
8
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gum tragacanth.

Corpus desk

Index EN-adragant · adragant · English

adragant · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "A" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for adragant
PropertyValue
Headwordadragant
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “adragant” in English

adragantsits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

adragant is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gum tragacanth.".

No misspelling variants are generated for adragant in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

Etymologically, the entry records: From French, a corruption of tragacanth. Doublet of tragacanth. The correct English form is adragant, spelled A-D-R-A-G-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Gum tragacanth.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. From the second Sort Monsieur Tournefort says, the Gum Adragant or Dragon is produced in Crete; of which he gives the following Relation in his Voyage to the Levant : “We had (says he) the Satisfaction “of fully observing the Gum “Adragant […]
  2. 3. Gum adragant.—The gum adragant […] flows from the adragant of Crete, a small shrub […]

Etymology

From French, a corruption of tragacanth. Doublet of tragacanth.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "adragant"?
"adragant" is spelled A-D-R-A-G-A-N-T.
What does "adragant" mean?
As a noun, "adragant" means: Gum tragacanth.
What is the origin of the word "adragant"?
From French, a corruption of tragacanth. Doublet of tragacanth. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list