dragan
\dʁa.ɡɑ̃\
The verdict
“dragan” is uncommon French (frequency #75,613 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,613
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Extrémité de la poupe d’une galère, où est inscrite la devise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dragan · dragan · French
dragan · rank #75,613 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,613
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH drachmes
Nearest frequency peer: drachmes (-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 « dragan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- douillette
douillette
24,391 corpus weight
- Doyon
Doyon
24,390 corpus weight
- drachmes
drachmes
24,389 corpus weight
- dragan
dragan
24,388 corpus weight
- dragonne
dragonne
24,387 corpus weight
- Drees
Drees
24,386 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dragan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dragan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁa.ɡɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,613 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dragan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dragan is uncommon French at frequency #75,613 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʁa.ɡɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Extrémité de la poupe d’une galère, où est inscrite la devise.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dragan, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is dragan, spelled D-R-A-G-A-N.
Definition
- 1Extrémité de la poupe d’une galère, où est inscrite la devise.
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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