droguerie
\dʁɔ.ɡʁi\
The verdict
“droguerie” is an uncommon French word, ranked #69,001 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #69,001
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Commerce des couleurs et des produits d’entretien.
| 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) |
Where “droguerie” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for droguerie is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dʁɔ.ɡʁi\. Corpus data places it at rank #69,001 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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.
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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Using “droguerie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-R-O-G-U-E-R-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \dʁɔ.ɡʁi\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.