draguer
\dʁa.ɡe\
The verdict
“draguer” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,359. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,359
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Curer avec la drague ou déminer avec un bateau dragueur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-draguer · draguer · French
draguer · rank #12,359 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,359
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH donation
Nearest frequency peer: donation (-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 « draguer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dividendes
dividendes
87,645 corpus weight
- divinité
divinité
87,644 corpus weight
- donation
donation
87,643 corpus weight
- draguer
draguer
87,642 corpus weight
- Durand
Durand
87,641 corpus weight
- durement
durement
87,640 corpus weight
What this shows « draguer » 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 | draguer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dʁa.ɡe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,359 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « draguer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around draguer (IPA \dʁa.ɡe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #12,359 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for draguer, with forms such as "darguer", "ddraguer", and "drageur". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "drogue", "draper", "drogues", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 draguer, spelled D-R-A-G-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Curer avec la drague ou déminer avec un bateau dragueur.
- 2Se mettre en situation de recherche ; tenter de trouver.
- 3Faire la cour à une personne dans le but d’obtenir ses faveurs amoureuses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how draguer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais vainement avait-on fouillé les bois et dragué les rivières; vainement avait-on signalé à toutes les autorités du département les deux étrangères.
Draguer un étang, une rivière, un bassin.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- darguer
- ddraguer
- drageur
- dragguer
- draguerr
- dragure
- drauger
- drgauer
- drraguer
- rdaguer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of draguer - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).