droguerie
\dʁɔ.ɡʁi\
The verdict
“droguerie” is uncommon French (frequency #69,001 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,001
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commerce des couleurs et des produits d’entretien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-droguerie · droguerie · French
droguerie · rank #69,001 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,001
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dro
Nearest frequency peer: dro (-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 « droguerie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- drapée
drapée
31,003 corpus weight
- dreyer
dreyer
31,002 corpus weight
- dro
dro
31,001 corpus weight
- droguerie
droguerie
31,000 corpus weight
- Dudelange
Dudelange
30,998 corpus weight
- Duluth
Duluth
30,997 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « droguerie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | droguerie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁɔ.ɡʁi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,001 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « droguerie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
droguerie is uncommon French at frequency #69,001 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʁɔ.ɡʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
droguerie doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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. The correct French form is droguerie, spelled D-R-O-G-U-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Commerce des couleurs et des produits d’entretien.
- 2Magasin spécialisé dans ce commerce.
- 3Fabrication ou commerce des médicaments ; lieu où on les vend.
- 4Choses vaines, inutiles, de peu de valeur.
- 5Falsification des denrées alimentaires.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how droguerie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était une petite droguerie qui vendait, entre autres choses, des articles pour la peinture, des toiles et des tubes d’acrylique ou de peinture à l’huile, et réalisait de menus travaux d’encadrement.
Quand je vois les dames attachées à la rhétorique, à la judiciaire, à la logique et semblables drogueries, si inutiles à leurs besoins… (Montaigne).
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).