dévastation
\de.vas.ta.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“dévastation” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,486. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,486
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de dévaster ou résultat de cette action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-devastation · dévastation · French
dévastation · rank #35,486 · 17 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,486
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH détournant
Nearest frequency peer: détournant (-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 « dévastation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dérisoires
dérisoires
64,518 corpus weight
- désaveu
désaveu
64,517 corpus weight
- détournant
détournant
64,516 corpus weight
- dévastation
dévastation
64,515 corpus weight
- Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf
64,514 corpus weight
- eastern
eastern
64,513 corpus weight
What this shows « dévastation » 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 | dévastation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.vas.ta.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #35,486 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dévastation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around dévastation (IPA \de.vas.ta.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,486 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Action de dévaster ou résultat de cette action.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for dévastation, with forms such as "ddévastation", "devastation", and "dvéastation". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "dégustation", "dévaluation", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is dévastation, spelled D-É-V-A-S-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de dévaster ou résultat de cette action.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dévastation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’historien d’Attigny pense que ce changement fut occasionné par la dévastation de la paroisse de Montmarin à l'époque de l’invasion du Comte de Bar en Champagne, en 1297.
Cependant, après les dévastations mongoles, l'islam s'embarqua dans une nouvelle phase d’expansion qui dura quatre cents ans (1300 - 1700), ère de conquête et d'empire, de la Hongrie à l'Indonésie.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddévastation
- devastation
- dvéastation
- déavstation
- dévasattion
- dévasstation
- dévastaiton
- dévastatino
- dévastationn
- dévastatoin
- dévastattion
- dévasttaion
- dévasttation
- dévatsation
- dévsatation
- dévvastation
- édvastation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dévastation - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).