druze

\dʁyz\

/\dʁyz\/ adj

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The verdict

“druze” is uncommon French (frequency #70,550 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#70,550
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux Druzes, communauté du Moyen-Orient.

Corpus desk

Index FR-druze · druze · French

druze · rank #70,550 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #70,550
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH driven

Nearest frequency peer: driven (-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 « druze »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « druze » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for druze
PropertyValue
Headworddruze
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\dʁyz\
Letters5
Frequency rank#70,550
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « druze » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).druzetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « driven » (#70,549), « dubitative » (#70,551), « drinks » (#70,548). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « druze » est au #70,550. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

druze is uncommon French at frequency #70,550 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dʁyz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif aux Druzes, communauté du Moyen-Orient.".

druze doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is druze, spelled D-R-U-Z-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Relatif aux Druzes, communauté du Moyen-Orient.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how druze appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les dirigeants druzes de la ville ont fait savoir après cette visite qu’ils rejetaient l’idée d’une riposte.
  2. Il n'y a ni liturgie, ni lieux de culte dans le mouvement druze.

This word in other languages

Druze(English)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "druze"?
"druze" is spelled D-R-U-Z-E. The IPA pronunciation is \dʁyz\.
What does "druze" mean?
As an adjective, "druze" means: Relatif aux Druzes, communauté du Moyen-Orient.
How do you pronounce "druze"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "druze" is \dʁyz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "druze" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "druze", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

douve#70,546Duris#70,554datif#70,519cutie#70,514

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list