derviche
\dɛʁ.viʃ\
The verdict
“derviche” is uncommon French (frequency #87,526 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,526
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Religieux musulman appartenant à une confrérie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-derviche · derviche · French
derviche · rank #87,526 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,526
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Delmotte
Nearest frequency peer: Delmotte (-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 « derviche »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Deandre
Deandre
12,477 corpus weight
- Delmotte
Delmotte
12,476 corpus weight
- derviche
derviche
12,475 corpus weight
- Dhaka
Dhaka
12,473 corpus weight
- dilutions
dilutions
12,472 corpus weight
- Dinklage
Dinklage
12,471 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « derviche » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | derviche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɛʁ.viʃ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,526 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « derviche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
derviche is uncommon French at frequency #87,526 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɛʁ.viʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Religieux musulman appartenant à une confrérie.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for derviche, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 derviche, spelled D-E-R-V-I-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Religieux musulman appartenant à une confrérie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how derviche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une autre voix demanda quel besoin la princesse avait des prières du derviche.
Nous étions une bande ainsi composée : une belle dame grecque, deux belles dames juives, un Allemand, un missionnaire américain, sa femme, et un derviche.
This word in other languages
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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