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divine

/dɪˈvaɪn/adjective, noun, verb

divine is spelled D-I-V-I-N-E: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 17 times per million words in written English, the 4,752nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, divine means “Of or pertaining to a god” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in divine?

Letters6: D-I-V-I-N-E
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing17 times per million words; the 4,752nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is divine?

Divine appears 17 times per million words in written English, the 4,752nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce divine?

  • /dɪˈvaɪn/

Divine has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-divine.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of divine

  • more divine comparative
  • most divine superlative
  • divines plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • divining participle, present
  • divined participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does divine mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or pertaining to a god.

    a divine being

  2. 2

    Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.

    divine power

  3. 3

    Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.

    divine skill

  4. 4

    Beautiful, heavenly.

  5. 5

    obsoleteForeboding; prescient.

  6. 6

    obsoleteimmortal; elect or saved after death

  7. 7

    Relating to divinity or theology.

noun

  1. 1

    One skilled in divinity; a theologian.

  2. 2

    A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.

    December 22, 1820, John Woodbridge, Sermon preached in Hadley in commemoration of the landing our fathers at Plymouth The first divines of New England […] were surpassed by none in extensive erudition.

  3. 3

    God or a god, particularly in its aspect as a transcendental concept.

verb

  1. 1

    To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination.

  2. 2

    To guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight.

  3. 3

    To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod.

  4. 4

    To render divine; to deify.

adjective

as Divine
  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of divine.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Divine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchdivin, divine (of or pertaining to a god), prédire (foretell (something)), deviner (guess (something))
Germangöttlich (of or pertaining to a god), prophezeien (foretell (something)), erraten, erahnen (guess (something))
Portuguesedivino (of or pertaining to a god), adivinhar (foretell (something))
Spanishdivino (of or pertaining to a god), adivinar, divinar (foretell (something))

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does divine come from?

From Old French divin, from Latin dīvīnus (“of a god”), from divus (“god”). Displaced native Old English godcund.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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