dériver
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#25,632
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
dériver is aFrenchverb. It means: Détourner un cours d’eau. Pronounced \de.ʁi.ve\. Often confused with drive and driver.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dériver |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.ʁi.ve\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #25,632 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dériver is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.ʁi.ve\. Corpus data places it at rank #25,632 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for dériver, with forms such as "ddériver", "deriver", and "dréiver". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "drive", "driver", "dévier", 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 dériver, spelled D-É-R-I-V-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Détourner un cours d’eau.
- 2Quitter un cours d’eau naturel ou un chenal.
- 3Tirer son origine de quelque part ; découler. → voir dérivé.
- 4Être issu par dérivation propre ou impropre. → voir dérivé.
- 5Trouver le rapport de l’accroissement d’une fonction à celui de la variable, quand la variable s’accroît d’une quantité de plus en plus petite. → voir dérivée.
- 6Sortir de ou être issu de quelque chose.
- 7Dévier de sa route, en parlant d’un vaisseau, sous la poussée du vent ou sous l’action d’un courant.
- 8S’écarter de sa direction, ne pas suivre une ligne droite.
- 9Détourner une cause morbide, l’attirer d’une partie dans une autre.
- 10Établir une connexion électrique en utilisant un circuit dérivé.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddériver,deriver,dréiver,déirver,dérievr,dériverr,dérivre,dérivver,dérriver,dérvier,édriver
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for dériver
Misspelling Variants of "dériver"
Frequency rank: #25,632 in French
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Nearby French words
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