dérivent
\de.ʁiv\
The verdict
“dérivent” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,274. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,274
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de dériver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-derivent · dérivent · French
dérivent · rank #39,274 · 13 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,274
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dénouer
Nearest frequency peer: dénouer (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « dérivent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dénaturer
dénaturer
60,730 corpus weight
- dénommés
dénommés
60,729 corpus weight
- dénouer
dénouer
60,728 corpus weight
- dérivent
dérivent
60,727 corpus weight
- désillusions
désillusions
60,726 corpus weight
- détectées
détectées
60,725 corpus weight
What this shows « dérivent » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dérivent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.ʁiv\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #39,274 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dérivent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around dérivent (IPA \de.ʁiv\), averb. Corpus frequency is #39,274 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for dérivent, with forms such as "ddérivent", "derivent", and "dréivent". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "doivent", "devient", "détient", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is dérivent, spelled D-É-R-I-V-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de dériver.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de dériver.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dérivent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mozart se joue également des styles, qu’il combine avec une fluidité remarquable : certains airs (Belmonte, Constance) dérivent de l’opera seria, ceux des personnages secondaires regardant clairement vers l’opera buffa (Osmin, Pedrillo), allant même jusqu’à mêler les deux dans certains ensembles (le quatuor final du deuxième acte), Constance et Belmonte d…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddérivent
- derivent
- dréivent
- déirvent
- dérievnt
- dérivennt
- dériventt
- dérivetn
- dérivnet
- dérivvent
- dérrivent
- dérvient
- édrivent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dérivent - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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