Which to use
“drag” and “drague” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #26,332
- “drag” frequency rank
- #11,951
- “drague” frequency rank
- 38283
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | drag | drague |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Personne s'habillant et se maquillant de manière excentrique, selon les codes généralement associés au genre opposé, pour donner un spectacle ou faire la fête. | Filet muni d’un racloir servant à la pêche à la traîne. |
Same sound, different letters: drag vs drague
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 4 letters. drag runs 4 letters (CCVC) against drague's 6 (CCVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - drag / drague
This is the hard kind. drag and drague are pronounced identically (\dʁaɡ\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “drag” sits inside “drague”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38283, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
drag is recorded at frequency rank #26,332, classified as anoun, pronounced \dʁaɡ\. 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 38283, this pair ranks #256,359 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of drag vs drague
Shared letters: adgr. Private to "drag": -. Private to "drague": eu.
"drag" · 4 letters · shape CCVC · "drague" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "drag" for "drague" ever safe?
Frequency check: "drag" vs "drague" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "drag" 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 #256,359 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "drag" and "drague" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "drag vs dray". 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 #256,359 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.