drakkar
\dʁa.kaʁ\
The verdict
“drakkar” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,292. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,292
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bateau léger à voiles et à rames, à l'étrave très relevée, utilisé par les Vikings du haut Moyen Âge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-drakkar · drakkar · French
drakkar · rank #47,292 · 9 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #47,292
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dragues
Nearest frequency peer: dragues (-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 « drakkar »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dissipée
dissipée
52,712 corpus weight
- diurnes
diurnes
52,711 corpus weight
- dragues
dragues
52,710 corpus weight
- drakkar
drakkar
52,709 corpus weight
- drum
drum
52,708 corpus weight
- duplicité
duplicité
52,706 corpus weight
What this shows « drakkar » 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 | drakkar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁa.kaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #47,292 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « drakkar »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around drakkar (IPA \dʁa.kaʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,292 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 drakkar, with forms such as "darkkar", "ddrakkar", and "drakakr". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Dakar", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is drakkar, spelled D-R-A-K-K-A-R.
Definition
- 1Bateau léger à voiles et à rames, à l'étrave très relevée, utilisé par les Vikings du haut Moyen Âge.
- 2Meuble représentant le bateau du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est généralement représenté de profil, équipé de boucliers, arborant une tête de dragon ou une spirale en proue et muni d’une voile rectangulaire. À rapprocher de bateau, flobard, gabarot, galère, navire, nef et vaisseau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how drakkar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toutes ces données expliquent la remarquable tenue à la mer et la rapidité du drakkar, la légèreté et la maniabilité, le faible tirant d’eau permettant des manœuvres faciles, même sur les hauts fonds.
D’or au drakkar de gueules, à la voile d’argent chargée d’une tête de cheval de sable, voguant sur une rivière d’azur, qui est de la commune de Dannevoux de la Meuse → voir illustration « armoiries avec un drakkar »
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- darkkar
- ddrakkar
- drakakr
- drakar
- drakkarr
- drakkra
- drkakar
- drrakkar
- rdakkar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of drakkar - 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).