devers
French, preposition
devers is spelled D-E-V-E-R-S (6 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 62,878th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Devers is a French preposition meaning “about, around” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, dévers is a different word: “a cant, bevel, tilt”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Du côté de”.
What does devers mean in English?
preposition
- 1
datedabout, around
- 2
datedtowards
adjective
- 1
rareout of plumb, unplumb, not vertical
noun
- 1
masculinea cant, bevel, tilt
- 2
masculinecant, superelevation: a railroad tracks adjustment where the inner rail and outer rail are put at different level from each other, used in curved tracks to ease off strains caused by centrifugal force and to obtain the necessary centripetal force
- 3
masculinean overhang
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui n’est pas d’aplomb.
noun: 1. Inclinaison de ce qui penche d’un côté. 2. Différence de hauteur du rail intérieur au rail extérieur dans une courbe pour combattre la force centrifuge. 3. Profil de mur incliné en arrière. 4. Inclinaison de l’arme par une rotation autour de l’axe de tir (roulis), générant un décalage du point d’impact (la ligne de visée n’étant pas exactement la ligne de feu pour compenser la chute balistique).
preposition: 1. Du côté de. 2. Envers.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of devers
- déverse feminine
- déverses feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is devers in French?
devers appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).