dragueur
\dʁa.ɡœʁ\
The verdict
“dragueur” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,754. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,754
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte d'engin de forage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dragueur · dragueur · French
dragueur · rank #39,754 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,754
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dorer
Nearest frequency peer: dorer (-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 « dragueur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- doing
doing
60,250 corpus weight
- donuts
donuts
60,249 corpus weight
- dorer
dorer
60,248 corpus weight
- dragueur
dragueur
60,247 corpus weight
- dressant
dressant
60,246 corpus weight
- duchés
duchés
60,244 corpus weight
What this shows « dragueur » 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 | dragueur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁa.ɡœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #39,754 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dragueur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around dragueur (IPA \dʁa.ɡœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,754 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for dragueur, with forms such as "dargueur", "ddragueur", and "drageuur". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "droguer", "drague", "draguer", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 dragueur, spelled D-R-A-G-U-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Sorte d'engin de forage.
- 2Bateau équipé pour faire des opérations de dragage.
- 3Navire de guerre équipé pour détruire les mines.
- 4Bateau équipé pour la pêche de bancs de poisson : la morue, le maquereau, le hareng, etc.
- 5Bateau équipé pour la culture des huîtres en eaux profondes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dragueur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le cylindre en tôle attaché à l'instrument étant resté ancré dans le petit puits, la tige de l'outil s'est brisée quand on a tiré dessus ; plusieurs des pièces du dragueur restèrent dans le trou ; il fallut travailler pendant trois jours pour les retirer et pour détacher le cylindre.
Le curage des vases de la Darse au moyen d'un dragueur à la vapeur de la force de 14 chevaux, a été complet en 1837.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dargueur
- ddragueur
- drageuur
- draggueur
- dragueru
- dragueurr
- draguuer
- draugeur
- drgaueur
- drragueur
- rdagueur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dragueur - 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.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).