Devereux
"devereux" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Devereux” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #47,578. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,578
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Anglo-Norman.
Corpus desk
Index EN-devereux · Devereux · English
Devereux · rank #47,578 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,578
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH diametrically
Nearest frequency peer: diametrically (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Devereux”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Derrida
Derrida
52,427 corpus weight
- despatches
despatches
52,426 corpus weight
- detonator
detonator
52,425 corpus weight
- Devereux
Devereux
52,423 corpus weight
- diametrical…
diametrically
52,422 corpus weight
- Dirac
Dirac
52,420 corpus weight
What this shows “Devereux” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Devereux |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #47,578 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Devereux”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Devereux, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #47,578 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A surname from Anglo-Norman.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Devereux, with forms such as "ddevereux", "deevreux", and "deveerux". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English Devereux, derived from Anglo-Norman. From d' + Evreux (meaning from Évreux, a city in Normandy). The correct English form is Devereux, spelled D-E-V-E-R-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1A surname from Anglo-Norman.
Etymology
From Middle English Devereux, derived from Anglo-Norman. From d' + Evreux (meaning from Évreux, a city in Normandy).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddevereux
- deevreux
- deveerux
- devereuxx
- deverexu
- deverreux
- deveruex
- devreeux
- devvereux
- dveereux
- edvereux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Devereux - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).