dracène
\dʁa.sɛn\
The verdict
“dracène” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dragonne ; dragon femelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dracene · dracène · French
dracène · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" 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 | dracène |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁa.sɛn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dracène » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dracène is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʁa.sɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dragonne ; dragon femelle.".
dracène doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dracène, spelled D-R-A-C-È-N-E.
Definition
- 1Dragonne ; dragon femelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dracène appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un poème du VIIᵉ siècle conte la venue du dieu à Pythô, l’Hymne homérique à Apollon : après sa naissance, le dieu cherche un sanctuaire digne de lui et se fixe à Delphes où il tue de ses flèches un dragon, ennemi de la lumière, ou plutôt une dracène, que la Terre a suscitée.
This word in other languages
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.