dev
\ˈdew\
The verdict
“dev” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,608) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,608
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme mutée de tev par adoucissement (t → d).
Corpus desk
Index FR-dev · dev · French
dev · rank #15,608 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,608
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH demandaient
Nearest frequency peer: demandaient (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « dev »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- crétin
crétin
84,395 corpus weight
- demandaient
demandaient
84,394 corpus weight
- dev
dev
84,393 corpus weight
- dunes
dunes
84,392 corpus weight
- Dupuis
Dupuis
84,391 corpus weight
- déluge
déluge
84,390 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « dev » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | dev |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈdew\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #15,608 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « dev »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dev is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "dr", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \ˈdew\. Frequency #15,608 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Forme mutée de tev par adoucissement (t → d).".
dev doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "dr", "di", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dev, spelled D-E-V.
Definition
- 1Forme mutée de tev par adoucissement (t → d).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dev appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Arru a zo eur vrumenn deo.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).