dragées
\dʁa.ʒe\
The verdict
“dragées” is uncommon French (frequency #51,419 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,419
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de dragée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dragees · dragées · French
dragées · rank #51,419 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,419
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dragage
Nearest frequency peer: dragage (-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 « dragées »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- dualisme
dualisme
48,579 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dragées » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dragées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁa.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dragées » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dragées is uncommon French at frequency #51,419 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʁa.ʒe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de dragée.".
dragées doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dragées, spelled D-R-A-G-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de dragée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dragées appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous allez attraper la coqueluche, ma bonne femme ; et, à votre âge, les dragées qui tombent là ne sont pas si bonnes à recevoir que des pignolats au sucre candi.
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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