dévier
French, verb/de.vje/
dévier is spelled D-É-V-I-E-R (6 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written French, the 22,196th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dévier is a French verb meaning “to divert” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Se détourner ; être détourné de sa direction”.
What does dévier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to divert
- 2
to deviate, stray, go off course
- 3
to deflect, parry
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Se détourner ; être détourné de sa direction. 2. S’écarter d’une ligne morale, religieuse, politique. 3. Écarter une portion du corps de sa direction normale.
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 dévier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- déviant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dévié participle past
- dévie first-person indicative present
- dévies indicative present second-person
- dévions first-person indicative plural
- déviez indicative plural present
- dévient indicative plural present
- déviais first-person imperfect indicative
- déviait imperfect indicative singular
- déviions first-person imperfect indicative
- déviiez imperfect indicative plural
- déviaient imperfect indicative plural
- déviai first-person historic indicative
- dévias historic indicative past
- dévia historic indicative past
- déviâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dévier?
- /de.vje/
- \de.vje\
- [de.vje]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dévier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dévier in French?
dévier appears 1.8 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).