dévier
\de.vje\
The verdict
“dévier” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,248. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,248
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se détourner ; être détourné de sa direction.
Corpus desk
Index FR-devier · dévier · French
dévier · rank #22,248 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,248
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déterminent
Nearest frequency peer: déterminent (-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 « dévier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- désirait
désirait
77,756 corpus weight
- déterminants
déterminants
77,755 corpus weight
- déterminent
déterminent
77,754 corpus weight
- dévier
dévier
77,753 corpus weight
- dévolu
dévolu
77,752 corpus weight
- effacement
effacement
77,751 corpus weight
What this shows « dévier » 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 | dévier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.vje\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #22,248 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dévier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around dévier (IPA \de.vje\), averb. Corpus frequency is #22,248 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for dévier, with forms such as "ddévier", "devier", and "dvéier". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "devis", "devin", "devil", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is dévier, spelled D-É-V-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Se détourner ; être détourné de sa direction.
- 2S’écarter d’une ligne morale, religieuse, politique.
- 3Écarter une portion du corps de sa direction normale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dévier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On munit chaque boussole d’une carte de déviation qui indique jusqu’à quel point l’aiguille dévie de sa position correcte.
Dès que j’en avais pour la première fois, au cours de mes explorations dans ce dédale de cours et de casemates, poussé par simple curiosité la porte, je m’étais senti progressivement envahir par un sentiment que je ne saurais guère définir qu’en disant qu’il était de ceux qui désorientent (comme on dit que dévie l’aiguille de la boussole au passage de cer…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddévier
- devier
- dvéier
- déiver
- déveir
- dévierr
- dévire
- dévvier
- édvier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dévier - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).