deviant
/ˈdiː.vi.ənt/
"deviant" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“deviant” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #27,805. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,805
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard.
Corpus desk
Index EN-deviant · deviant · English
deviant · rank #27,805 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,805
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH desolation
Nearest frequency peer: desolation (-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 “deviant”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Davos
Davos
72,202 corpus weight
- daybreak
daybreak
72,200 corpus weight
- desolation
desolation
72,197 corpus weight
- deviant
deviant
72,196 corpus weight
- Devine
Devine
72,195 corpus weight
- devious
devious
72,194 corpus weight
What this shows “deviant” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | deviant |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈdiː.vi.ənt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “deviant”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around deviant (IPA /ˈdiː.vi.ənt/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #27,805 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for deviant, with forms such as "ddeviant", "deivant", and "devaint". 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. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Devin", "Devine", "deviate", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English devyaunt (“deviating, different”), from Late Latin dēviāns, present participle of dēviō (“to stray, deviate or detour”). The noun is from the adjective, possibly attested in Middle English with the meaning “one who goes astray”. * (Devia… The correct English form is deviant, spelled D-E-V-I-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how deviant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
At the trial, the extent of his deviant behaviour became clear.
He’s like more successful but equally morally abhorrent right-wing undercover operative James O’Keefe’s non-union Mexican equivalent, a dunce whose one move involves incompetently attempting to frame figures of seemingly unimpeachable moral integrity, like Robert Mueller or good old Mayor Pete, as deviant sex criminals like Wohl’s God Donald Trump by unsu…
Etymology
From Middle English devyaunt (“deviating, different”), from Late Latin dēviāns, present participle of dēviō (“to stray, deviate or detour”). The noun is from the adjective, possibly attested in Middle English with the meaning “one who goes astray”. * (DeviantArt member): So called because the website was originally for people who modified (deviated) computer applications.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddeviant
- deivant
- devaint
- deviannt
- deviantt
- deviatn
- devinat
- devviant
- dveiant
- edviant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of deviant - 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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