drogue

/\dʁɔɡ\/ noun

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.

Key facts for drogue
PropertyValue
Headworddrogue
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dʁɔɡ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#2,772
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs17
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of drogue in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Substance psychotrope provoquant le plus souvent une dépendance et utilisée pour modifier son état mental, en particulier substance illégale dont l’usage est réprouvé.
  2. 2
    Psychotrope quelconque, même s’il est vendu légalement et socialement acceptable.
  3. 3
    Dépendance, habitude, période pendant laquelle on prend des psychotropes.
  4. 4
    Chose qui intoxique, qui provoque comme une dépendance ; passe-temps très prenant.
  5. 5
    Nom générique de divers ingrédients qui s’emploient surtout en pharmacie, pour la teinture et aussi dans le monde rural pour désigner les traitements phytosanitaires.
  6. 6
    Nom générique de divers ingrédients qui s’emploient surtout en pharmacie, pour la teinture et aussi dans le monde rural pour désigner les traitements phytosanitaires.
  7. 7
    Chose qui n’a pas de valeur.
  8. 8
    Vieille ferraille.
  9. 9
    Ajonc
  10. 10
    Droguerie

Synonyms

This word in other languages

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"

ddrogue7dorgue6drgoue6drogeu6droggue7drouge6drrogue7rdogue6
Misspelling Variants of "drogue"

Frequency rank: #2,772 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "drogue"?
"drogue" is spelled D-R-O-G-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \dʁɔɡ\.
What does "drogue" mean?
As a noun, "drogue" 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.
What words are commonly confused with "drogue"?
"drogue" is commonly confused with "drôle", "drone", "droite". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "drogue"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "drogue" is \dʁɔɡ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "drogue" come from?
"drogue" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.