devancière
\də.vɑ̃.sjɛʁ\
The verdict
“devancière” is uncommon French (frequency #75,593 among 404,891 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,593
- frequency rank, French
- 404,891
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Celle qui a précédé une personne dans ce qu’elle fait.
Corpus desk
Index FR-devanciere · devancière · French
devancière · rank #75,593 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,593
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 404,891
- PHOTO-FINISH deuce
Nearest frequency peer: deuce (-2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “devancière”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Desplechin
Desplechin
24,412 corpus weight
- determine
determine
24,411 corpus weight
- deuce
deuce
24,410 corpus weight
- devancière
devancière
24,408 corpus weight
- devo
devo
24,406 corpus weight
- digérés
digérés
24,405 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “devancière” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | devancière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \də.vɑ̃.sjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #75,593 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “devancière” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
devancière is uncommon French at frequency #75,593 among 404,891 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \də.vɑ̃.sjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for devancière in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is devancière, spelled D-E-V-A-N-C-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui a précédé une personne dans ce qu’elle fait.
- 2Chose qui en précède une autre.
- 3Ancêtres ; aïeules.
Synonyms
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "devancière", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.