deveniez
\də.və.nje\
The verdict
“deveniez” is uncommon French (frequency #79,218 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,218
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de devenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deveniez · deveniez · French
deveniez · rank #79,218 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,218
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dessalines
Nearest frequency peer: Dessalines (-2 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 « deveniez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dermatite
dermatite
20,788 corpus weight
- Dessalines
Dessalines
20,785 corpus weight
- deveniez
deveniez
20,783 corpus weight
- dido
dido
20,781 corpus weight
- diffusaient
diffusaient
20,780 corpus weight
- disruptive
disruptive
20,778 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « deveniez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | deveniez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \də.və.nje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,218 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « deveniez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
deveniez is uncommon French at frequency #79,218 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \də.və.nje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for deveniez, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is deveniez, spelled D-E-V-E-N-I-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de devenir.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de devenir.
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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