dragoon
/dɹəˈɡuːn/
"dragoon" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dragoon” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #44,176 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #44,176
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Synonym of dragon (“a type of musket with a short, large-calibre barrel and a flared muzzle, metaphorically exhaling fire like a mythical dragon”).
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dragoon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dɹəˈɡuːn/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #44,176 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dragoon” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for dragoon is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /dɹəˈɡuːn/. Corpus data places it at rank #44,176 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for dragoon, with forms such as "dargoon", "ddragoon", and "draggoon". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Drayton", "Drago", "dragon", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: The noun is borrowed from French dragon (“dragon (mythological creature); type of cavalry soldier, dragoon”) (originally referring to a soldier armed with the firearm of the same name (noun sense 1.1)), ultimately from Latin dracō (“dragon; kind of serpent … The correct English form is dragoon, spelled D-R-A-G-O-O-N.
Definition
- 1Synonym of dragon (“a type of musket with a short, large-calibre barrel and a flared muzzle, metaphorically exhaling fire like a mythical dragon”).
- 2Originally (historical), a soldier armed with a dragoon musket (noun sense 1.1) who fought both on foot and mounted on a horse; now, a cavalier or horse soldier from a regiment formerly armed with such muskets.
- 3A man with a fierce or unrefined manner, like a dragoon (noun sense 1.2).
- 4A variety of pigeon, originally a cross between a horseman and a tumbler.
Etymology
The noun is borrowed from French dragon (“dragon (mythological creature); type of cavalry soldier, dragoon”) (originally referring to a soldier armed with the firearm of the same name (noun sense 1.1)), ultimately from Latin dracō (“dragon; kind of serpent or snake”), from Ancient Greek δρᾰ́κων (drắkōn, “dragon; serpent”), possibly from δέρκομαι (dérkomai, “to see, see clearly (in the sense of something staring)”), from Proto-Indo-European *derḱ- (“to see”)). Doublet of Draco, dracone, and dragon. The verb is either derived: * from the noun; or * from French dragonner (“to force (someone) into doing something, coerce; to torment (oneself)”), from dragon (noun) (see above) + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: dargoon,ddragoon,draggoon,dragono,dragoonn,draogon,drgaoon,drragoon,rdagoon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dragoon - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “dragoon”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-R-A-G-O-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /dɹəˈɡuːn/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Drayton” - see the side-by-side comparison. dragoon vs Drayton
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.