dragoon
/dɹəˈɡuːn/
"dragoon" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dragoon” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #44,176. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,176
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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”).
Corpus desk
Index EN-dragoon · dragoon · English
dragoon · rank #44,176 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,176
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH DSA
Nearest frequency peer: DSA (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “dragoon”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- doorknob
doorknob
55,829 corpus weight
- doormat
doormat
55,828 corpus weight
- downsize
downsize
55,827 corpus weight
- dragoon
dragoon
55,825 corpus weight
- DSA
DSA
55,824 corpus weight
- dwelt
dwelt
55,823 corpus weight
What this shows “dragoon” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “dragoon”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around dragoon (IPA /dɹəˈɡuːn/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,176 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dragoon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[A] Lieutenant of a Troupe of compleat armed French Piſtoliers, is reputed better in degree then a Captaine of an hundred Foot, a Lieutenant of the late inuented Dragoones (being not aboue ſixteene inche Barrell, and full Muſquet bore) the Foot-Captaines equall, and the Lieutenant of a Troupe of Harquebuſsiers or Carbines his immediate younger brother.
[T]he Lovv-countries haue produced another ſort of Horſe-men, vvhich their experience there haue found out to be of notable vſe, and they call them Dragoons, vvhich I knovv not vvhether I may tearme them Foot-Horſe-men, or Horſe-Footmen: for they are Muſquetiers on horſebacke, and are imployed for the taking and maintaining, or at leaſt for preuenting the…
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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