drogue

Other forms of drogue

plural

drogues·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about drogue

What does drogue mean?

drogue means "a funnel-shaped device towed as a target by an airplane". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in drogue?

drogue has 1 syllable: drogue. In IPA it is /ˈdɹoʊɡ/.

What is another word for drogue?

Close synonyms include windsock, wind sock, sock, air sock, air-sleeve. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drogue a common word?

drogue is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.