drague

\dʁaɡ\

/\dʁaɡ\/ noun

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The verdict

“drague” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,951. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#11,951
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
18
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Filet muni d’un racloir servant à la pêche à la traîne.

Corpus desk

Index FR-drague · drague · French

drague · rank #11,951 · 8 variants · 18 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #11,951
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH dog

Nearest frequency peer: dog (-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 « drague »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « drague » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

drague vs drame
67% similar
drague vs drake
67% similar
drague vs drogue
83% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for drague
PropertyValue
Headworddrague
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dʁaɡ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#11,951
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs18
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « drague »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.draguese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « dog » (#11,950), « Dumas » (#11,952), « dires » (#11,949). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « drague » est au #11,951. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around drague (IPA \dʁaɡ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,951 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for drague, with forms such as "dargue", "ddrague", and "drageu". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "drame", "drake", "drogue", 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 drague, spelled D-R-A-G-U-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Filet muni d’un racloir servant à la pêche à la traîne.
  2. 2
    Racloire en fer adaptée au filet qui sert à racler le fond de la mer et dont on se sert dans la pêche aux huîtres et dans celle des moules.
  3. 3
    Câble lesté de grappins de fer qu'on promène au fond de l'eau.
  4. 4
    Synonyme de dragueur (bateau faisant des opérations de dragage).
  5. 5
    Vente de camelote, de remèdes charlatanesques.
  6. 6
    Fonds de commerce ou état de saltimbanque ; attirail d'escamoteur. — (Delvau, 1866)

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how drague appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La drague rapporte de ces profondeurs, parfois en surprenante abondance, des dents de requins et des caisses tympaniques de baleines.
  2. Le ravageur puise, à l’aide d’une longue drague, le sable de rivière sous la vase ; puis le recueillant dans de grandes sébiles de bois.

This word in other languages

dredge(English)draga(Español)Schleppnetz(Deutsch)draga(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • dargue
  • ddrague
  • drageu
  • draggue
  • drauge
  • drgaue
  • drrague
  • rdague

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of drague - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

dargue2ddrague1drageu2draggue1drauge2drgaue2drrague1rdague2
Edit distance from "drague"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "drague"?
"drague" is spelled D-R-A-G-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \dʁaɡ\.
What does "drague" mean?
As a noun, "drague" means: Filet muni d’un racloir servant à la pêche à la traîne.
What words are commonly confused with "drague"?
"drague" is commonly confused with "drame", "drake", "drogue". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "drague"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "drague" is \dʁaɡ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "drague" come from?
"drague" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "drague", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Denise#11,947gagnes#11,971Chypre#11,929géante#11,974

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

crête8 variantscrack8 variantsattrait8 variantsarrivez8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list