drogue dure
The verdict
“drogue dure” 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
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Drogue capable de provoquer plus ou moins rapidement une dépendance psychique et physique si forte que l’utilisateur devient incapable de mener une vie normale en parallèle de son usage.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drogue dure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁɔɡ dyʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “drogue dure” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for drogue dure is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dʁɔɡ dyʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for drogue dure 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 dure, spelled D-R-O-G-U-E- -D-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Drogue capable de provoquer plus ou moins rapidement une dépendance psychique et physique si forte que l’utilisateur devient incapable de mener une vie normale en parallèle de son usage.
- 2Tout ce qui induit une dépendance extrême et nocive.
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Using “drogue dure”
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- The one correct French spelling is D-R-O-G-U-E- -D-U-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \dʁɔɡ dyʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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