dragage
\dʁa.ɡaʒ\
The verdict
“dragage” is uncommon French (frequency #51,418 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,418
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de draguer ou résultat de cette action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dragage · dragage · French
dragage · rank #51,418 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,418
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH domini
Nearest frequency peer: domini (-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 « dragage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- divisible
divisible
48,587 corpus weight
- domini
domini
48,584 corpus weight
- dragage
dragage
48,583 corpus weight
- dragées
dragées
48,582 corpus weight
- dresseurs
dresseurs
48,581 corpus weight
- dribbles
dribbles
48,580 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dragage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dragage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁa.ɡaʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,418 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dragage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dragage is uncommon French at frequency #51,418 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʁa.ɡaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de draguer ou résultat de cette action.".
No misspelling variants are generated for dragage in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is dragage, spelled D-R-A-G-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de draguer ou résultat de cette action.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dragage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À Marseille, deux épaves romaines présentent ainsi un puits central permettant de les identifier comme des chalands à clapets utilisés pour l’entretien portuaire, sans doute au moment des très importants dragages pratiquées au début du Iᵉʳ siècle de notre ère dans le fond du port, par exemple celui de Naples, où subsistent des traces impressionnantes.
Il ressort de la rencontre que la faible pluviométrie et le dragage sont en train de menacer les cours du fleuve Niger en aval, singulièrement le Sankarani.
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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