adragant
\a.dʁa.ɡɑ̃\
The verdict
“adragant” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie une gomme tirée des astragales, qui sert d'excipient en pharmacie, de solvant en aquarelle, d'apprêt en teinture, ou encore de liant en confiserie et en pâtisserie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-adragant · adragant · French
adragant · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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 | adragant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.dʁa.ɡɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
adragant is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.dʁa.ɡɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qualifie une gomme tirée des astragales, qui sert d'excipient en pharmacie, de solvant en aquarelle, d'apprêt en teinture, ou encore de liant en confiserie et en pâtisserie.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for adragant in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is adragant, spelled A-D-R-A-G-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qualifie une gomme tirée des astragales, qui sert d'excipient en pharmacie, de solvant en aquarelle, d'apprêt en teinture, ou encore de liant en confiserie et en pâtisserie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how adragant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La gomme adragante est retirée d'une astragale (Astragalus verus), arbrisseau qui croît dans les provinces septentrionales de la Perse, l'Asie Mineure et l'Arménie.
"Cependant la principale destinée de la source de Saâdi est encore de macérer les peaux d'astrakan. - Les peaux d'astrakan ? - Oui, le trafic le plus gros de Chirâz avec l'opium et la gomme adragante."
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.