drogon
The verdict
“drogon” is uncommon French (frequency #82,874 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,874
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom utilisé pour désigner une espèce de fourmis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-drogon · drogon · French
drogon · rank #82,874 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,874
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dresseuse
Nearest frequency peer: dresseuse (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « drogon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Doue
Doue
17,131 corpus weight
- DPD
DPD
17,130 corpus weight
- draconienne
draconienne
17,129 corpus weight
- dresseuse
dresseuse
17,128 corpus weight
- drogon
drogon
17,127 corpus weight
- duale
duale
17,124 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « drogon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drogon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #82,874 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « drogon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
drogon is uncommon French at frequency #82,874 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom utilisé pour désigner une espèce de fourmis.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for drogon in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 drogon, spelled D-R-O-G-O-N.
Definition
- 1Nom utilisé pour désigner une espèce de fourmis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how drogon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une fourmi de Papouasie hérissée de piquants a été baptisée drogon. — (« Top 10 des nouvelles espèces 2017 », Le Monde, 24 mai 2017)
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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