drugstore
\dʁœɡ.stɔʁ\
The verdict
“drugstore” is uncommon French (frequency #69,764 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,764
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commerce de détail ouvert sur une large plage horaire et proposant un éventail de produit allant de l’alimentation à la pharmacie en passant par le débit de tabac et le kiosque de presse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-drugstore · drugstore · French
drugstore · rank #69,764 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,764
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH drapier
Nearest frequency peer: drapier (-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 « drugstore »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Dominici
Dominici
30,240 corpus weight
- drapier
drapier
30,238 corpus weight
- drugstore
drugstore
30,237 corpus weight
- Drupal
Drupal
30,235 corpus weight
- dua
dua
30,234 corpus weight
- dubus
dubus
30,233 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « drugstore » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drugstore |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁœɡ.stɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,764 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « drugstore » en français
Rare enough to double-check
drugstore is uncommon French at frequency #69,764 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʁœɡ.stɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commerce de détail ouvert sur une large plage horaire et proposant un éventail de produit allant de l’alimentation à la pharmacie en passant par le débit de tabac et le kiosque de presse.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for drugstore in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is drugstore, spelled D-R-U-G-S-T-O-R-E.
Definition
- 1Commerce de détail ouvert sur une large plage horaire et proposant un éventail de produit allant de l’alimentation à la pharmacie en passant par le débit de tabac et le kiosque de presse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how drugstore appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Allez faire un tour du côté du drugstore. Vous les trouverez toutes là.
Ce que l’on mangeait dans les drugstores, plus ou moins élégants, se ressemblait, tout comme le milk-of-magnesia ou l’aspirine, vendus par le pharmacien de l’autre comptoir, sont les mêmes dans toutes les pharmacies.
Synonyms
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).