devenaient
\də.və.nɛ\
The verdict
“devenaient” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,832. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,832
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de devenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-devenaient · devenaient · French
devenaient · rank #23,832 · 14 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,832
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dirigeantes
Nearest frequency peer: dirigeantes (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « devenaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- derrick
derrick
76,172 corpus weight
- descriptive
descriptive
76,171 corpus weight
- devenaient
devenaient
76,169 corpus weight
- dirigeantes
dirigeantes
76,168 corpus weight
- disparut
disparut
76,167 corpus weight
- divorcer
divorcer
76,165 corpus weight
What this shows « devenaient » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | devenaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \də.və.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #23,832 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « devenaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around devenaient (IPA \də.və.nɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #23,832 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de devenir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for devenaient, with forms such as "ddevenaient", "deevnaient", and "deveanient". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "devenant", "devenait", "devraient", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 devenaient, spelled D-E-V-E-N-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de devenir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how devenaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les abbayes et les monastères, étaient à cette époque, « cavernes de voleurs, lieux de dissolution » ; les abus devenaient tellement criants, les désordres prenaient des proportions si inquiétantes, qu’à tout prix il fallait y mettre un terme.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddevenaient
- deevnaient
- deveanient
- devenaeint
- devenaiennt
- devenaientt
- devenaietn
- devenainet
- deveniaent
- devennaient
- devneaient
- devvenaient
- dveenaient
- edvenaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of devenaient - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).