développer
\dɛv.lɔ.pe\
The verdict
“développer” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #1,812 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #1,812
- frequency rank, French
- 10
- letters
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dégager une chose de ce qui l’enveloppe.
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 | développer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dɛv.lɔ.pe\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #1,812 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “développer” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for développer is 10 letters long, classified as a verb, 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 generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for développer, with forms such as "ddévelopper", "developper", and "dvéelopper". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is développer, spelled D-É-V-E-L-O-P-P-E-R.
Definition
- 1Dégager une chose de ce qui l’enveloppe.
- 2Déployer une chose enveloppée, pliée.
- 3Faire qu’un être ou une chose se forme ou se transforme, tant au sens physique qu’au sens moral.
- 4Répandre dans l'espace ou le temps.
- 5Étendre une surface courbe, en respectant ses dimensions, sur un plan.
- 6Représenter sur un plan les diverses faces d’un objet.
- 7Faire apparaître, à l’aide de procédés chimiques, les images que la lumière a produites sur le cliché.
- 8Exposer, présenter, faire voir quelque chose en détail.
- 9Transformer une expression algébrique en une somme d’éléments.
- 10Pousser aussi loin que possible les opérations d’une expression algébrique, qui y sont indiquées.
- 11Réaliser, implanter, implémenter (un programme).
- 12Se former ou se transformer (en parlant d'un organisme).
- 13S’améliorer (en parlant d’une faculté).
- 14S’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
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of développer - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “développer”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-É-V-E-L-O-P-P-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \dɛv.lɔ.pe\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “développés” - see the side-by-side comparison. développer vs développés
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.