développer

/\dɛv.lɔ.pe\/ verb

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,812

in French word usage

Misspellings

14

tracked variants

Confusables

9

similar word pairs

développer is aFrenchverb. It means: Dégager une chose de ce qui l’enveloppe. Pronounced \dɛv.lɔ.pe\. It ranks #1,812 in French word frequency. Often confused with développés and développeur.

Key facts for développer
PropertyValue
Headworddévelopper
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\dɛv.lɔ.pe\
Letters10
Frequency rank#1,812
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of développer in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for développer is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɛv.lɔ.pe\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,812 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for développer, with forms such as "ddévelopper", "developper", and "dvéelopper". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "développés", "développeur", "développera", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is développer, spelled D-É-V-E-L-O-P-P-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dégager une chose de ce qui l’enveloppe.
  2. 2
    Déployer une chose enveloppée, pliée.
  3. 3
    Faire qu’un être ou une chose se forme ou se transforme, tant au sens physique qu’au sens moral.
  4. 4
    Répandre dans l'espace ou le temps.
  5. 5
    Étendre une surface courbe, en respectant ses dimensions, sur un plan.
  6. 6
    Représenter sur un plan les diverses faces d’un objet.
  7. 7
    Faire apparaître, à l’aide de procédés chimiques, les images que la lumière a produites sur le cliché.
  8. 8
    Exposer, présenter, faire voir quelque chose en détail.
  9. 9
    Transformer une expression algébrique en une somme d’éléments.
  10. 10
    Pousser aussi loin que possible les opérations d’une expression algébrique, qui y sont indiquées.
  11. 11
    Réaliser, implanter, implémenter (un programme).
  12. 12
    Se former ou se transformer (en parlant d'un organisme).
  13. 13
    S’améliorer (en parlant d’une faculté).
  14. 14
    S’étendre.

Antonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ddévelopper,developper,dvéelopper,déevlopper,dévellopper,dévelopepr,déveloper,développerr,développre,dévelpoper,déveolpper,dévleopper,dévvelopper,édvelopper

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for développer

Misspelling Variants of "développer"

ddévelopper11developper10dvéelopper10déevlopper10dévellopper11dévelopepr10déveloper9développerr11
Misspelling Variants of "développer"

Frequency rank: #1,812 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "développer"?
"développer" is spelled D-É-V-E-L-O-P-P-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \dɛv.lɔ.pe\.
What does "développer" mean?
As a verb, "développer" means: Dégager une chose de ce qui l’enveloppe.
What words are commonly confused with "développer"?
"développer" is commonly confused with "développés", "développeur", "développera". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "développer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "développer" is \dɛv.lɔ.pe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "développer" come from?
"développer" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.