devenant
\də.və.nɑ̃\
The verdict
“devenant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,691. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,691
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de devenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-devenant · devenant · French
devenant · rank #8,691 · 12 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,691
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH demandons
Nearest frequency peer: demandons (-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 « devenant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Cyril
Cyril
91,314 corpus weight
- céleste
céleste
91,313 corpus weight
- danois
danois
91,312 corpus weight
- demandons
demandons
91,311 corpus weight
- devenant
devenant
91,310 corpus weight
- déménagement
déménagement
91,308 corpus weight
What this shows « devenant » 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 | devenant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \də.və.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,691 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « devenant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around devenant (IPA \də.və.nɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #8,691 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de devenir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for devenant, with forms such as "ddevenant", "deevnant", and "deveannt". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "devenons", "dévorant", "devant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is devenant, spelled D-E-V-E-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de devenir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how devenant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La doctrine morale du théologien intéresse la philosophie, dans cette mesure très haute où finalement la théologie morale « théologalise » une vérité « ontologale » (le « mal » moral philosophique devenant « péché » par exemple, où donc, entre les lois « naturelles » et les normes « surnaturelles », n’existe pas cet écart ontologique que la basse scolasti…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddevenant
- deevnant
- deveannt
- devenannt
- devenantt
- devenatn
- devennant
- devennat
- devneant
- devvenant
- dveenant
- edvenant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of devenant - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).