divot
/ˈdɪvət/noun, verb
divot is spelled D-I-V-O-T. The wrong spelling people search most is divet: about 920 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 3 in 10 of all searches for the word. Divot is a noun meaning “A torn-up piece of turf, especially by a golf club in making a stroke or by a horse's hoof”. The plural of divot is divots.
How many letters and syllables are in divot?
| Letters | 5: D-I-V-O-T |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 8 million words; the 82,325th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, divet, about 920 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell divot?
Divot is spelled D-I-V-O-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for divot in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is divot?
Divot appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 82,325th 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 divot?
- /ˈdɪvət/
- /ˈdɪvɪt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-divot.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of divot
- divots plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- divoting participle, present
- divoted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does divot mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A torn-up piece of turf, especially by a golf club in making a stroke or by a horse's hoof.
- 2
A disruption in an otherwise smooth contour.
- 3
A drop in a graph between two linear portions (example)
verb
- 1
To tear up pieces of turf from, especially with a golf club in making a stroke.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Divot in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | divot |
| German | Rasenstück, (Gras)sode , Vertiefung, Delle, Scharte |
| Spanish | chuleta , hoyito |
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 divot come from?
1530s, Scots divot (“turf”), also spelt devat, diffat, and the earliest form (1435), duvat(e), from Scottish Gaelic dubhad, a reduced form of dubh-fhàd, literally “black sod” (compare fàl (“turf, sod”)).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).