Drache

/\ˈdʁa.xə\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Drache is aFrenchnoun. It means: Dragon (animal fabuleux). Pronounced \ˈdʁa.xə\.

Key facts for Drache
PropertyValue
HeadwordDrache
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ˈdʁa.xə\
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Drache is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for Drache is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈdʁa.xə\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Dragon (animal fabuleux).".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Drache in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 French form is Drache, spelled D-R-A-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dragon (animal fabuleux).

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Drache"?
"Drache" is spelled D-R-A-C-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈdʁa.xə\.
What does "Drache" mean?
As a noun, "Drache" means: Dragon (animal fabuleux).
How do you pronounce "Drache"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Drache" is \ˈdʁa.xə\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Drache" come from?
"Drache" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.