draco
\ˈdra.koː\
The verdict
“draco” is uncommon French (frequency #50,173 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,173
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dragon, serpent fabuleux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-draco · draco · French
draco · rank #50,173 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,173
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Domitien
Nearest frequency peer: Domitien (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « draco »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- docteure
docteure
49,831 corpus weight
- doctorats
doctorats
49,830 corpus weight
- Domitien
Domitien
49,829 corpus weight
- draco
draco
49,828 corpus weight
- draw
draw
49,827 corpus weight
- déballe
déballe
49,825 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « draco » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | draco |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈdra.koː\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #50,173 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « draco » en français
Rare enough to double-check
draco is uncommon French at frequency #50,173 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈdra.koː\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for draco in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is draco, spelled D-R-A-C-O.
Definition
- 1Dragon, serpent fabuleux.
- 2Dragon, enseigne de la cohorte.
- 3Sorte d’alambic.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how draco appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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