devinait
\də.vi.nɛ\
The verdict
“devinait” is uncommon French (frequency #77,420 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,420
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de deviner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-devinait · devinait · French
devinait · rank #77,420 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,420
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Devillers
Nearest frequency peer: Devillers (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « devinait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- deve
deve
22,584 corpus weight
- Devillers
Devillers
22,582 corpus weight
- devinait
devinait
22,581 corpus weight
- dijonnaise
dijonnaise
22,580 corpus weight
- Dirac
Dirac
22,579 corpus weight
- disjoncter
disjoncter
22,578 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « devinait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | devinait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \də.vi.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « devinait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
devinait is uncommon French at frequency #77,420 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \də.vi.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de deviner.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for devinait, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is devinait, spelled D-E-V-I-N-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de deviner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how devinait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ève, qui devinait les tortures de cette modestie, se plut à jouir de ce silence ; mais quand David tortilla son chapeau pour s’en aller, elle sourit.
Sur l’horizon, l’aube se devinait au frémissement de l’air, bien que la nuit se révélât encore d’un noir inaltéré.
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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