draconien
\dʁa.kɔ.njɛ̃\
The verdict
“draconien” is uncommon French (frequency #90,642 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,642
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est d’une excessive sévérité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-draconien · draconien · French
draconien · rank #90,642 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,642
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH drapiers
Nearest frequency peer: drapiers (+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 « draconien »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Donnay
Donnay
9,363 corpus weight
- Dormans
Dormans
9,362 corpus weight
- doubleaux
doubleaux
9,361 corpus weight
- draconien
draconien
9,359 corpus weight
- drapiers
drapiers
9,358 corpus weight
- DTA
DTA
9,357 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « draconien » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | draconien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dʁa.kɔ.njɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #90,642 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « draconien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
draconien is uncommon French at frequency #90,642 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dʁa.kɔ.njɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est d’une excessive sévérité.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for draconien, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is draconien, spelled D-R-A-C-O-N-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Qui est d’une excessive sévérité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how draconien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais cette Novelle marque une régression dans la voie de la répression de l’eunuchat. Estimant l’ancienne législation trop draconienne, Léon VI abolissait la peine du talion contre les opérateurs et adoucissait les autres pénalités.
Pierre Laval avait remplacé Doumergue, fin 1934. Il pensait résoudre les problèmes financiers et économiques par la déflation. Il prit des mesures draconiennes.
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); 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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