droga
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,396
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
droga is aSpanishnoun. It means: Sustancia que, ingerida o asimilada de otra manera, altera las funciones de un organismo. Pronounced [ˈd̪ɾoɣ̞a]. It ranks #3,396 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with dron and drop.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | droga |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈd̪ɾoɣ̞a] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,396 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for droga is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈd̪ɾoɣ̞a]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,396 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for droga, with forms such as "ddroga", "dorga", and "drgoa". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dron", "drop", "drug", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is droga, spelled D-R-O-G-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sustancia que, ingerida o asimilada de otra manera, altera las funciones de un organismo.
- 2En particular, aquella que se utiliza para la cura, prevención o alivio de una dolencia.
- 3En particular, aquella que se utiliza con fines recreativos, narcóticos, alucinógenos o estimulantes, por la sensación de bienestar, emoción o alteración de la conciencia que provoca, y sin el control de un médico.
- 4Embuste, ardid.
- 5Obligación, especialmente monetaria, que se ha contraído con alguien.^([cita requerida])
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddroga,dorga,drgoa,droag,drogga,drroga,rdoga
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for droga
Misspelling Variants of "droga"
Frequency rank: #3,396 in Spanish
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