devant
/də.vɑ̃/
The verdict
“devant” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #88,754 among 4,885 “D” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,754
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Delante, delante de.
Corpus desk
Index ES-devant · devant · Spanish
devant · rank #88,754 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,754
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH desvalorizaci…
Nearest frequency peer: desvalorización (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “devant”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- destacaremos
destacaremos
11,250 corpus weight
- desubicados
desubicados
11,249 corpus weight
- desvaloriza…
desvalorización
11,248 corpus weight
- devant
devant
11,247 corpus weight
- devastaron
devastaron
11,246 corpus weight
- devoradores
devoradores
11,244 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “devant” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | devant |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /də.vɑ̃/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #88,754 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “devant” en español
Rare enough to double-check
devant is uncommon Spanish at frequency #88,754 among 4,885 “D” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed /də.vɑ̃/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for devant, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is devant, spelled D-E-V-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Delante, delante de.
- 2Anteriormente.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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