DragovsdragueWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: Drago is a name, drague is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Drago” is a name and “drague” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#32,784
“Drago” frequency rank
#11,951
“drague” frequency rank
44735
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Drago drague
Definition Nom de famille. Filet muni d’un racloir servant à la pêche à la traîne.

Letter map: Drago vs drague

Shared letters muted; letters that set Drago and drague apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. Drago runs 5 letters (CCVCV) against drague's 6 (CCVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
Drago
6 ch
drague

Part-of-speech tell for Drago / drague

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Drago is aname and dragueanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44735, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Drago is recorded at frequency rank #32,784, classified as aname. 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 44735, this pair ranks #208,213 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Drago vs drague

Shared letters: adgr. Private to "Drago": o. Private to "drague": eu.

"Drago" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV  ·  "drague" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Drago ← dargo · ddrago · draggo · draog · drgao · drrago · rdago
  • drague ← dargue · ddrague · drageu · draggue · drauge · drgaue · drrague · rdague

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Drago" for "drague" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Drago" is a name and "drague" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Drago" vs "drague" - which ranks higher?
"drague" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,951 in our French list, against #32,784 for "Drago". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "Drago" vs "drague" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Drago" 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 #208,213 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Drago" and "drague" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Drago 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 #208,213 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list