dévaste
\de.vast\
The verdict
“dévaste” is uncommon French (frequency #65,106 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,106
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de dévaster.
Corpus desk
Index FR-devaste · dévaste · French
dévaste · rank #65,106 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,106
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Eaubonne
Nearest frequency peer: Eaubonne (+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 « dévaste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- détacha
détacha
34,899 corpus weight
- détournait
détournait
34,898 corpus weight
- détruisirent
détruisirent
34,897 corpus weight
- dévaste
dévaste
34,895 corpus weight
- Eaubonne
Eaubonne
34,894 corpus weight
- Eloy
Eloy
34,891 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dévaste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dévaste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.vast\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,106 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dévaste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dévaste is uncommon French at frequency #65,106 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.vast\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
dévaste doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists 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 dévaste, spelled D-É-V-A-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de dévaster.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de dévaster.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de dévaster.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de dévaster.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de dévaster.
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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