devinant
\də.vi.nɑ̃\
The verdict
“devinant” is uncommon French (frequency #95,798 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,798
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de deviner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-devinant · devinant · French
devinant · rank #95,798 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,798
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH developing
Nearest frequency peer: developing (-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 « devinant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dessinaient
dessinaient
4,208 corpus weight
- developing
developing
4,204 corpus weight
- devinant
devinant
4,203 corpus weight
- Dieulefit
Dieulefit
4,202 corpus weight
- dijk
dijk
4,200 corpus weight
- dilatoires
dilatoires
4,199 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « devinant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | devinant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \də.vi.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #95,798 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « devinant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
devinant is uncommon French at frequency #95,798 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \də.vi.nɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de deviner.".
devinant has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is devinant, spelled D-E-V-I-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de deviner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how devinant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
M. de La Baudraye a dit que votre tardive grossesse exigeait que vos couches se fissent à Paris, et qu’il avait exigé que vous y allassiez pour y avoir les soins des princes de la médecine, répondit le substitut en devinant bien ce que Dinah voulait savoir.
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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