dériveur
\de.ʁi.vœʁ\
The verdict
“dériveur” is uncommon French (frequency #86,653 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,653
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bateau à voile muni d'une dérive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deriveur · dériveur · French
dériveur · rank #86,653 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,653
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dérangées
Nearest frequency peer: dérangées (-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 « dériveur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- déprogramma…
déprogrammation
13,351 corpus weight
- déprécie
déprécie
13,350 corpus weight
- dérangées
dérangées
13,349 corpus weight
- dériveur
dériveur
13,348 corpus weight
- désherber
désherber
13,347 corpus weight
- déstabilise…
déstabilisent
13,346 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dériveur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dériveur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.ʁi.vœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,653 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dériveur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dériveur is uncommon French at frequency #86,653 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.ʁi.vœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for dériveur, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is dériveur, spelled D-É-R-I-V-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Bateau à voile muni d'une dérive.
- 2Dérive.
- 3Drifter, bateau de pêche qui traîne des filets dérivants.
- 4Voile de cape, sorte d'artimon raccourci. ^([1])
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dériveur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le dimanche 14 novembre 1954, parti sur un petit dériveur dont il avait fait l'acquisition l'été même, il disparut tragiquement dans sa quarante et unième année, chavirant devant sa famille. Un bateau qui se trouvait à moins de 500 mètres tenta de lui porter secours, mais ne le retrouva plus.
Il faut sans doute gagner un maximum de milles vers la côte pendant que la mer n’est pas encore trop creuse alors que je la vois déjà moutonner, déferler parfois, à tribord, à quelques kilomètres à peine de mon dériveur.
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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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