dévalant
\de.va.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“dévalant” is uncommon French (frequency #82,897 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,897
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de dévaler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-devalant · dévalant · French
dévalant · rank #82,897 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,897
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH détresses
Nearest frequency peer: détresses (-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 « dévalant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dépérit
dépérit
17,109 corpus weight
- déroulèrent
déroulèrent
17,107 corpus weight
- désherbant
désherbant
17,106 corpus weight
- détresses
détresses
17,105 corpus weight
- dévalant
dévalant
17,104 corpus weight
- dînent
dînent
17,103 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dévalant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dévalant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.va.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #82,897 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dévalant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dévalant is uncommon French at frequency #82,897 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.va.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de dévaler.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dévalant, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 dévalant, spelled D-É-V-A-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de dévaler.
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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