drag queen
Letters
10 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
drag queen is aFrenchnoun. It means: Personne (généralement un homme) qui habillée souvent de façon exagérément féminine, afin de donner une performance de la féminité ou en imitant des femmes célèbres, pour amuser ou à titre d’animat... Pronounced \dʁaɡ kwin\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drag queen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁaɡ kwin\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for drag queen is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dʁaɡ kwin\. 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: "Personne (généralement un homme) qui habillée souvent de façon exagérément féminine, afin de donner une performance de la féminité ou en imitant des femmes célèbres, pour amuser ou à titre d’animat...".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for drag queen 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 drag queen, spelled D-R-A-G- -Q-U-E-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Personne (généralement un homme) qui habillée souvent de façon exagérément féminine, afin de donner une performance de la féminité ou en imitant des femmes célèbres, pour amuser ou à titre d’animation et de spectacle.
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