dragon
\dʁa.ɡɔ̃\
The verdict
“dragon” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,749. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,749
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est propre aux soldats nommés dragons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dragon · dragon · French
dragon · rank #4,749 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,749
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH doutes
Nearest frequency peer: doutes (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « dragon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Didier
Didier
95,255 corpus weight
- dirai
dirai
95,254 corpus weight
- doutes
doutes
95,253 corpus weight
- dragon
dragon
95,252 corpus weight
- découvertes
découvertes
95,251 corpus weight
- décrire
décrire
95,250 corpus weight
What this shows « dragon » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dragon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dʁa.ɡɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,749 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dragon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around dragon (IPA \dʁa.ɡɔ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,749 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for dragon, with forms such as "dargon", "ddragon", and "draggon". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "drain", "drague", "dragons", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is dragon, spelled D-R-A-G-O-N.
Definition
- 1Qui est propre aux soldats nommés dragons.
- 2Qui est cavalier, sans gêne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dragon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il était, de la tête aux pieds, un officier du temps, avec tous les défauts et, les qualités de ce temps, pétri par la guerre et pour la guerre, et ne croyant qu’à elle, et n’aimant qu’elle ; un de ces dragons qui font sonner leurs gros talons, — comme dit la vieille chanson dragonne.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dargon
- ddragon
- draggon
- dragno
- dragonn
- draogn
- drgaon
- drragon
- rdagon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dragon - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dragon", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).