drogue du zombie
\dʁɔɡ dy zɔ̃.bi\
The verdict
“drogue du zombie” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Nom vulgaire de la phencyclidine, psychotrope hallucinogène de formule chimique C₁₇H₂₅N.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drogue du zombie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁɔɡ dy zɔ̃.bi\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “drogue du zombie” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for drogue du zombie is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dʁɔɡ dy zɔ̃.bi\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for drogue du zombie in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 du zombie, spelled D-R-O-G-U-E- -D-U- -Z-O-M-B-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom vulgaire de la phencyclidine, psychotrope hallucinogène de formule chimique C₁₇H₂₅N.
- 2Nom vulgaire de la désomorphine de formule chimique C₁₇H₂₁NO₂, dérivé de la morphine aux forts effets sédatif et analgésique, utilisé comme stupéfiant de substitution à l'héroïne.
- 3Nom vulgaire de l'alpha-PVP de formule chimique C₁₅H₂₁NO, la plus puissante drogue psychostimulante de la famille des cathinones et analogue déméthylé de la pyrovalérone.
- 4Nom vulgaire de la scopolamine de formule chimique C₁₇H₂₁NO₄, anticholinergique aussi utilisé comme psychotrope hallucinogène délirant et puissant sédatif.
- 5Nom vulgaire de la méthamphétamine de formule chimique C₁₀H₁₅N, drogue de synthèse sympathicomimétique et psychoanaleptique, extrêmement addictive.
- 6Nom vulgaire de la xylazine, sédatif à usage vétérinaire de formule chimique C₁₂H₁₆N₂S.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is D-R-O-G-U-E- -D-U- -Z-O-M-B-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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