devançant
\də.vɑ̃.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“devançant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,560. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,560
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de devancer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-devancant · devançant · French
devançant · rank #30,560 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,560
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Deutsch
Nearest frequency peer: Deutsch (-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 « devançant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Delorme
Delorme
69,444 corpus weight
- Deutsch
Deutsch
69,442 corpus weight
- devançant
devançant
69,441 corpus weight
- devil
devil
69,440 corpus weight
- dextérité
dextérité
69,439 corpus weight
- dinars
dinars
69,438 corpus weight
What this shows « devançant » 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 | devançant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \də.vɑ̃.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #30,560 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « devançant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around devançant (IPA \də.vɑ̃.sɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #30,560 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de devancer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for devançant, with forms such as "ddevançant", "deavnçant", and "devanaçnt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "devenant", "demandant", "dénonçant", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is devançant, spelled D-E-V-A-N-Ç-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de devancer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how devançant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Devançant, en quelque sorte, le projet de loi de 1969, dont nous reparlerons, cette pratique a pour conséquence que de nombreux patients officiellement « décolloqués » sont maintenus dans un service psychiatrique « ouvert », sans qu’on se préoccupe du fait de savoir s’ils y consentent ou non (alors que la présence d’un patient dans un tel service n’est en…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddevançant
- deavnçant
- devanaçnt
- devancant
- devannçant
- devançannt
- devançantt
- devançatn
- devançnat
- devaçnant
- devnaçant
- devvançant
- dveançant
- edvançant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of devançant - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).