drogue
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,772
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
drogue is aFrenchnoun. It means: Substance psychotrope provoquant le plus souvent une dépendance et utilisée pour modifier son état mental, en particulier substance illégale dont l’usage est réprouvé. Pronounced \dʁɔɡ\. It ranks #2,772 in French word frequency. Often confused with drôle and drone.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drogue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁɔɡ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,772 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for drogue is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dʁɔɡ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,772 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for drogue, with forms such as "ddrogue", "dorgue", and "drgoue". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "drôle", "drone", "droite", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is drogue, spelled D-R-O-G-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Substance psychotrope provoquant le plus souvent une dépendance et utilisée pour modifier son état mental, en particulier substance illégale dont l’usage est réprouvé.
- 2Psychotrope quelconque, même s’il est vendu légalement et socialement acceptable.
- 3Dépendance, habitude, période pendant laquelle on prend des psychotropes.
- 4Chose qui intoxique, qui provoque comme une dépendance ; passe-temps très prenant.
- 5Nom générique de divers ingrédients qui s’emploient surtout en pharmacie, pour la teinture et aussi dans le monde rural pour désigner les traitements phytosanitaires.
- 6Nom générique de divers ingrédients qui s’emploient surtout en pharmacie, pour la teinture et aussi dans le monde rural pour désigner les traitements phytosanitaires.
- 7Chose qui n’a pas de valeur.
- 8Vieille ferraille.
- 9Ajonc
- 10Droguerie
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddrogue,dorgue,drgoue,drogeu,droggue,drouge,drrogue,rdogue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for drogue
Misspelling Variants of "drogue"
Frequency rank: #2,772 in French
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