dragée
\dʁa.ʒe\
The verdict
“dragée” is uncommon French (frequency #64,382 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,382
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Confiserie faite d’un fruit sec ou amande enrobé de sucre très dur blanc ou coloré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dragee · dragée · French
dragée · rank #64,382 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,382
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dragueurs
Nearest frequency peer: dragueurs (-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 « dragée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dominera
dominera
35,622 corpus weight
- DPA
DPA
35,621 corpus weight
- dragueurs
dragueurs
35,620 corpus weight
- dragée
dragée
35,619 corpus weight
- dressera
dressera
35,618 corpus weight
- droïde
droïde
35,617 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dragée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dragée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁa.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,382 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dragée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dragée is uncommon French at frequency #64,382 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʁa.ʒe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for dragée in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is dragée, spelled D-R-A-G-É-E.
Definition
- 1Confiserie faite d’un fruit sec ou amande enrobé de sucre très dur blanc ou coloré.
- 2Médicament enrobé d'une couche de sucre pour que l'absorption en soit facilitée.
- 3Menu plomb dont on se sert pour tirer aux oiseaux.
- 4Balle d’arme à feu
- 5Muscardine de vers à soie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dragée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une boîte de dragées.
—Je pense bien que Mme Silvert nous donnera bientôt l’occasion de sucer quelques dragées. Pour ma part, j’en commanderai au kirsch, ne pouvant les avaler qu’au kirsch.
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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