Deville
The verdict
“Deville” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,766. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,766
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département des Ardennes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deville · Deville · French
Deville · rank #27,766 · 8 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,766
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH disiez
Nearest frequency peer: disiez (+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 « Deville »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- deck
deck
72,238 corpus weight
- demanderont
demanderont
72,237 corpus weight
- Deville
Deville
72,235 corpus weight
- disiez
disiez
72,234 corpus weight
- disproporti…
disproportionnée
72,233 corpus weight
- disputées
disputées
72,232 corpus weight
What this shows « Deville » 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 | Deville |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,766 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Deville »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Deville, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #27,766 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département des Ardennes.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Deville, with forms such as "ddeville", "deivlle", and "devile". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "devise", "devine", "devils", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Deville, spelled D-E-V-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département des Ardennes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Deville appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gite n° 49. Dans le vallon, entre les routes de Bourg-Fidèle à Rimogne et de Bourg-Fidèle à Harcy, on trouve de nombreux blocs de diorite qui se sont probablement intercalés dans les schistes de Deville.
12 août. — Le temps se rafraîchit. Repos à Renwez. Dans la matinée, reconnaissance en auto des passages de la Meuse et du débouché sur la rive droite qui me préoccupe, par Château-Renault, Monthermé, Deville.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddeville
- deivlle
- devile
- devilel
- devlile
- devville
- dveille
- edville
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Deville - 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
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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 (8 here; floor ≥5).