Which to use
“digue” and “drague” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #18,169
- “digue” frequency rank
- #11,951
- “drague” frequency rank
- 30120
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | digue | drague |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Levée de terre, de pierres, de bois, etc. pour contenir des eaux d’un fleuve, d’un torrent, d’un lac, et contrer les flots de la mer. | Filet muni d’un racloir servant à la pêche à la traîne. |
Where the eye mixes digue and drague
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. digue runs 5 letters (CVCVV) against drague's 6 (CCVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Visual trap between digue and drague
A purely visual mix-up. digue (\diɡ\) and drague (\dʁaɡ\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 30120, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
digue is recorded at frequency rank #18,169, classified as anoun, pronounced \diɡ\. drague is at rank #11,951, tagged as anoun, pronounced \dʁaɡ\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 30120, this pair ranks #312,378 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of digue vs drague
Shared letters: degu. Private to "digue": i. Private to "drague": ar.
"digue" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV · "drague" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "digue" and "drague" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "digue" or "drague"?
After this comparison
Eye-level mix-up between "digue" and "drague" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "digue" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "drague" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #312,378 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "digue" and "drague" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "digue vs diode". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #312,378 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.