devenir
\dəv.niʁ\
The verdict
“devenir” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #720. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #720
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Situation à venir, évolution future de quelque chose ou de quelqu’un, de plusieurs personnes, jugée comme incertaine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-devenir · devenir · French
devenir · rank #720 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #720
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH euros
Nearest frequency peer: euros (+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 « devenir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chercher
chercher
99,284 corpus weight
- connu
connu
99,283 corpus weight
- devenir
devenir
99,281 corpus weight
- euros
euros
99,280 corpus weight
- expérience
expérience
99,279 corpus weight
- filles
filles
99,278 corpus weight
What this shows « devenir » 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 | devenir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dəv.niʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #720 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « devenir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around devenir (IPA \dəv.niʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #720 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for devenir, with forms such as "ddevenir", "deevnir", and "deveinr". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "devoir", "devenu", "devenue", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is devenir, spelled D-E-V-E-N-I-R.
Definition
- 1Situation à venir, évolution future de quelque chose ou de quelqu’un, de plusieurs personnes, jugée comme incertaine.
- 2Mouvement par lequel une chose, un être se forme ou se transforme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how devenir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La presse londonienne s’interroge sur le devenir de la « britannité », cette identité collective dans laquelle se reconnaissent Anglais, Écossais, Gallois et habitants d'Irlande du Nord.
Au bilan, tout se passe comme si le devenir de la planète avait occulté celui de l’humanité.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddevenir
- deevnir
- deveinr
- devenirr
- devennir
- devenri
- devneir
- devvenir
- dveenir
- edvenir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of devenir - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "devenir", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).