dévastés
\de.vas.te\
The verdict
“dévastés” is uncommon French (frequency #50,187 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,187
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de dévasté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-devastes · dévastés · French
dévastés · rank #50,187 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,187
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH désinstaller
Nearest frequency peer: désinstaller (-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 « dévastés »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- déformées
déformées
49,820 corpus weight
- déracinés
déracinés
49,818 corpus weight
- désendettem…
désendettement
49,816 corpus weight
- désinstaller
désinstaller
49,815 corpus weight
- dévastés
dévastés
49,814 corpus weight
- empattement
empattement
49,809 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dévastés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dévastés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.vas.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,187 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dévastés » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dévastés is uncommon French at frequency #50,187 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \de.vas.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de dévasté.".
dévastés doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 dévastés, spelled D-É-V-A-S-T-É-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de dévasté.
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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