devais
\də.vɛ\
The verdict
“devais” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,910. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,910
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de devoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-devais · devais · French
devais · rank #3,910 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,910
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH der
Nearest frequency peer: der (-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 « devais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- coach
coach
96,095 corpus weight
- consommateu…
consommateurs
96,094 corpus weight
- der
der
96,092 corpus weight
- devais
devais
96,091 corpus weight
- diriger
diriger
96,090 corpus weight
- essayez
essayez
96,088 corpus weight
What this shows « devais » 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 | devais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \də.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,910 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « devais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around devais (IPA \də.vɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #3,910 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for devais, with forms such as "ddevais", "deavis", and "devaiss". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "devis", "devin", "devil", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is devais, spelled D-E-V-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de devoir.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de devoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how devais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si je devais payer pour me déplacer, j’aurais probablement un peu renoncé au chauffage, confie pour sa part Jordan, 29 ans, habitant Diekirch, qui fait chaque jour cinquante minutes de train pour aller travailler.
Tu as besoin de picoler dès huit heures du matin… tu es pathétique… c’est toi qui as rompu notre accord… tu devais laisser tomber la dope… les tox, c’est pas fiable…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddevais
- deavis
- devaiss
- devasi
- devias
- devvais
- dveais
- edvais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of devais - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).