devancent
\də.vɑ̃s\
The verdict
“devancent” is uncommon French (frequency #62,913 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,913
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de devancer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-devancent · devancent · French
devancent · rank #62,913 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,913
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Desmoulins
Nearest frequency peer: Desmoulins (-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 « devancent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dente
dente
37,091 corpus weight
- Deschanel
Deschanel
37,090 corpus weight
- Desmoulins
Desmoulins
37,089 corpus weight
- devancent
devancent
37,088 corpus weight
- devancés
devancés
37,087 corpus weight
- dimensionne…
dimensionnelle
37,085 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « devancent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | devancent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \də.vɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,913 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « devancent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
devancent is uncommon French at frequency #62,913 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \də.vɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for devancent in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 devancent, spelled D-E-V-A-N-C-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de devancer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif 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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