dérive
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,052
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
dérive is aFrenchnoun. It means: Écart, déviation entre le cap effectivement suivi par un navire ou un aéroplane et le cap initialement fixé. Pronounced \de.ʁiv\. It ranks #7,052 in French word frequency. Often confused with dive and drive.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dérive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.ʁiv\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,052 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dérive is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.ʁiv\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,052 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for dérive, with forms such as "ddérive", "derive", and "dréive". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dive", "drive", "doive", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is dérive, spelled D-É-R-I-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Écart, déviation entre le cap effectivement suivi par un navire ou un aéroplane et le cap initialement fixé.
- 2Angle que la quille du bâtiment fait avec la direction réelle de sa route.
- 3Déplacement en mer, au gré du vent et des courants, en parlant des glaces ou des varechs.
- 4Mauvaise direction, mauvaise pente.
- 5Élément fixe ou mobile d'un bateau permettant de réduire les déplacements du bateau dans la direction perpendiculaire à son plan de symétrie, à la différence du gouvernail, qui est destiné à permettre le changement de cap.
- 6Aileron situé sous la planche de surf, et qui sert la stabiliser.
- 7Empennage vertical qui comporte une partie mobile qui a la même fonction que le gouvernail sur un navire.
- 8Action, en particulier politique, qui diffère de celle annoncée par ceux qui la mènent.
- 9Tendance des abeilles à retourner à la mauvaise ruche à la fin d’un vol.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddérive,derive,dréive,déirve,dériev,dérivve,dérrive,dérvie,édrive
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for dérive
Misspelling Variants of "dérive"
Frequency rank: #7,052 in French
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