droïde
\dʁɔ.id\
The verdict
“droïde” is uncommon French (frequency #64,384 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,384
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Robot construit à l’image d’un être humain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-droide · droïde · French
droïde · rank #64,384 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,384
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dressera
Nearest frequency peer: dressera (-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 « droïde »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dragueurs
dragueurs
35,620 corpus weight
- dragée
dragée
35,619 corpus weight
- dressera
dressera
35,618 corpus weight
- droïde
droïde
35,617 corpus weight
- dwarf
dwarf
35,616 corpus weight
- dyke
dyke
35,615 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « droïde » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | droïde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁɔ.id\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,384 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « droïde » en français
Rare enough to double-check
droïde is uncommon French at frequency #64,384 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʁɔ.id\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Robot construit à l’image d’un être humain.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for droïde, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 droïde, spelled D-R-O-Ï-D-E.
Definition
- 1Robot construit à l’image d’un être humain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how droïde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle avait son nouveau casque avec micro incorporé, on aurait dit un droïde.
Synonyms
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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