devancée
\də.vɑ̃.se\
The verdict
“devancée” is uncommon French (frequency #52,002 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,002
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de devancer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-devancee · devancée · French
devancée · rank #52,002 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,002
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH deutéronome
Nearest frequency peer: deutéronome (-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 « devancée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- DDE
DDE
48,002 corpus weight
- Denoël
Denoël
48,001 corpus weight
- deutéronome
deutéronome
48,000 corpus weight
- devancée
devancée
47,999 corpus weight
- Diagne
Diagne
47,998 corpus weight
- dictionary
dictionary
47,997 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « devancée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | devancée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \də.vɑ̃.se\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,002 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « devancée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
devancée is uncommon French at frequency #52,002 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \də.vɑ̃.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de devancer.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for devancée, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is devancée, spelled D-E-V-A-N-C-É-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier de devancer.
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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