depotvsDevosWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#7,674
“depot” frequency rank
#39,777
“Devos” frequency rank
47451
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature depot Devos
Definition A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse. A surname from Dutch.

Letter map: depot vs Devos

Shared letters muted; letters that set depot and Devos apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
depot
5 ch
Devos

Part-of-speech tell for depot / Devos

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: depot is anoun and Devosaname. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47451, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

depot is recorded at frequency rank #7,674, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈdɛpəʊ/. Devos is at rank #39,777, tagged as aname.

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 47451, this pair ranks #202,337 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of depot vs Devos

Shared letters: deo. Private to "depot": pt. Private to "Devos": sv.

"depot" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "Devos" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • depotddepot · deopt · depott · deppot · depto · dpeot · edpot
  • Devosddevos · deovs · devoss · devso · devvos · dveos · edvos

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "depot" and "Devos" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "depot" is a noun and "Devos" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "depot" or "Devos"?
"depot" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,674 in our English list, against #39,777 for "Devos". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "depot" and "Devos". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "depot" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Devos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #202,337 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "depot" and "Devos" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "depose vs Devos". 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 #202,337 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list