developer
\dɪˈvɛl.ə.pə(ɹ)\
The verdict
“developer” is uncommon French (frequency #62,195 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,195
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Développeur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-developer · developer · French
developer · rank #62,195 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,195
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dianne
Nearest frequency peer: Dianne (+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 « developer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- despotique
despotique
37,809 corpus weight
- destrier
destrier
37,808 corpus weight
- developer
developer
37,806 corpus weight
- Dianne
Dianne
37,805 corpus weight
- diatribes
diatribes
37,804 corpus weight
- diffamer
diffamer
37,803 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « developer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | developer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɪˈvɛl.ə.pə(ɹ)\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,195 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « developer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
developer is uncommon French at frequency #62,195 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɪˈvɛl.ə.pə(ɹ)\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for developer in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is developer, spelled D-E-V-E-L-O-P-E-R.
Definition
- 1Développeur.
- 2Personne ou société qui développe un projet, concepteur.
- 3Produits chimiques utilisés pour le développement des photos.
- 4Personne qui utilise des produits chimiques pour le développement des photos.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how developer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Luckily enough, there are a number of predefined character classes that can be re-used and will be already known by other developers, making the expressions using them more readable.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).