devaient
\də.vɛ\
The verdict
“devaient” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,249. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,249
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de devoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-devaient · devaient · French
devaient · rank #3,249 · 11 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,249
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH destruction
Nearest frequency peer: destruction (-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 « devaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cultures
cultures
96,755 corpus weight
- dessins
dessins
96,754 corpus weight
- destruction
destruction
96,753 corpus weight
- devaient
devaient
96,752 corpus weight
- enregistrem…
enregistrement
96,750 corpus weight
- envoi
envoi
96,749 corpus weight
What this shows « devaient » 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 | devaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \də.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #3,249 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « devaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around devaient (IPA \də.vɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #3,249 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de devoir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for devaient, with forms such as "ddevaient", "deavient", and "devaeint". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "devant", "devait", "devint", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is devaient, spelled D-E-V-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de devoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how devaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plus tard, ces déterminations de la valeur d’un degré terrestre furent faites en divers lieux de la terre, car le globe n’étant pas un sphéroïde, mais un ellipsoïde, des opérations multiples devaient donner la mesure de son aplatissement aux pôles.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddevaient
- deavient
- devaeint
- devaiennt
- devaientt
- devaietn
- devainet
- deviaent
- devvaient
- dveaient
- edvaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of devaient - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "devaient", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).