# drudge

> English word · Noun · IPA /dɹʌd͡ʒ/ · frequency rank #46,431

## Definitions
1. A person who works in a low servile job.
2. Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else.

## Etymology
From Middle English druggen, perhaps from Old English *dryċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *druggjan, from Proto-Germanic *drugjaną, a denominative built to a lost noun *drugjaz (preserved in Old English Dryċġhelm), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ-; compare Old English drēogan (“to do; to suffer”).

## Easily confused with
- **drug** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/drudge-vs-drug)
- **dude** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/drudge-vs-dude)
- **drugs** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/drudge-vs-drugs)
- **Druze** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/drudge-vs-druze)
- **drugged** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/drudge-vs-drugged)
- **drudgery** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/drudge-vs-drudgery)
- **dodge** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dodge-vs-drudge)
- **dredge** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dredge-vs-drudge)
- **dredged** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dredged-vs-drudge)

## Common misspellings (9)
`ddrudge`, `drduge`, `drrudge`, `druddge`, `drudeg`, `drudgge`, `drugde`, `durdge`, `rdudge`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/drudge