deviner
French, verb/də.vi.ne/
deviner is spelled D-E-V-I-N-E-R (7 letters) and appears 8.7 times per million words in written French, the 7,421st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Deviner is a French verb meaning “to guess; to work out, figure out” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Prédire ce qui doit arriver, découvrir, par des sortilèges, ce qui est caché”.
What does deviner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to guess; to work out, figure out
- 2
to sense, perceive
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Prédire ce qui doit arriver, découvrir, par des sortilèges, ce qui est caché. 2. Parvenir à connaître, à découvrir par voie de conjecture. 3. Trouver le mot, la solution, en parlant d'une énigme, d'un logogriphe, d'une charade 4. Comprendre la personnalité, les pensées, les intentions ou les desseins de quelqu'un
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 deviner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- devinant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- deviné participle past
- devine first-person indicative present
- devines indicative present second-person
- devinons first-person indicative plural
- devinez indicative plural present
- devinent indicative plural present
- devinais first-person imperfect indicative
- devinait imperfect indicative singular
- devinions first-person imperfect indicative
- deviniez imperfect indicative plural
- devinaient imperfect indicative plural
- devinai first-person historic indicative
- devinas historic indicative past
- devina historic indicative past
- devinâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce deviner?
- /də.vi.ne/
- \də.vi.ne\
- \dvi.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to deviner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is deviner in French?
deviner appears 8.7 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).