davant
[dəˈβan]
The verdict
“davant” is uncommon French (frequency #64,366 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,366
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Devant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-davant · davant · French
davant · rank #64,366 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,366
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH datas
Nearest frequency peer: datas (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « davant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- daims
daims
35,639 corpus weight
- Danville
Danville
35,638 corpus weight
- dataient
dataient
35,637 corpus weight
- datas
datas
35,636 corpus weight
- davant
davant
35,635 corpus weight
- Delga
Delga
35,633 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « davant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | davant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [dəˈβan] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,366 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « davant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
davant is uncommon French at frequency #64,366 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed [dəˈβan]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Devant.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for davant, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is davant, spelled D-A-V-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Devant.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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