deviner
\də.vi.ne\
The verdict
“deviner” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,420. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,420
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prédire ce qui doit arriver, découvrir, par des sortilèges, ce qui est caché.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deviner · deviner · French
deviner · rank #7,420 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,420
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH crédibilité
Nearest frequency peer: crédibilité (-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 « deviner »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- couverts
couverts
92,585 corpus weight
- croiser
croiser
92,583 corpus weight
- crédibilité
crédibilité
92,582 corpus weight
- deviner
deviner
92,581 corpus weight
- diocèse
diocèse
92,580 corpus weight
- dom
dom
92,579 corpus weight
What this shows « deviner » 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 | deviner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \də.vi.ne\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « deviner »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around deviner (IPA \də.vi.ne\), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,420 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for deviner, with forms such as "ddeviner", "deivner", and "devienr". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "diner", "devint", "divine", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 deviner, spelled D-E-V-I-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Prédire ce qui doit arriver, découvrir, par des sortilèges, ce qui est caché.
- 2Parvenir à connaître, à découvrir par voie de conjecture.
- 3Trouver le mot, la solution, en parlant d'une énigme, d'un logogriphe, d'une charade
- 4Comprendre la personnalité, les pensées, les intentions ou les desseins de quelqu'un
- 5Distinguer, voir, confusément par la vue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how deviner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il prétendait deviner où était caché le trésor.
L’art de deviner est une chimère.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddeviner
- deivner
- devienr
- devinerr
- devinner
- devinre
- devnier
- devviner
- dveiner
- edviner
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of deviner - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "deviner", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).