deva

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The English entry for deva is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈdeɪvə/. Corpus data places it at rank #40,208 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A god in Vedic mythology, Hinduism and Buddhism.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for deva, with forms such as "ddeva", "deav", and "devva". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "DV", "DNA", "DVD", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: Transliteration of Sanskrit देव (deva, “deity, god”). Doublet of daeva. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is deva, spelled D-E-V-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.