dragée
/dɹæˈʒeɪ/
"dragee" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dragée” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dragee · dragée · English
dragée · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dragée |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dɹæˈʒeɪ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dragée” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dragée is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /dɹæˈʒeɪ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dragée, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French dragée. The correct English form is dragée, spelled D-R-A-G-É-E.
Definition
- 1A sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dragée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I opened the cupboard and found a bag of raisins, two empty sauce bottles, a packet of icing sugar, a tube of dragées and a paper packet of candles.
Etymology
From French dragée.
This word in other languages
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.