deviner

\də.vi.ne\

/\də.vi.ne\/ verb

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

corpus weight

What this shows « deviner » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

deviner vs diner
71% similar
deviner vs devint
71% similar
deviner vs divine
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for deviner
PropertyValue
Headworddeviner
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\də.vi.ne\
Letters7
Frequency rank#7,420
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « deviner »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).devinerse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « crédibilité » (#7,419), « diocèse » (#7,421), « croiser » (#7,418). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « deviner » est au #7,420. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Prédire ce qui doit arriver, découvrir, par des sortilèges, ce qui est caché.
  2. 2
    Parvenir à connaître, à découvrir par voie de conjecture.
  3. 3
    Trouver le mot, la solution, en parlant d'une énigme, d'un logogriphe, d'une charade
  4. 4
    Comprendre la personnalité, les pensées, les intentions ou les desseins de quelqu'un
  5. 5
    Distinguer, voir, confusément par la vue.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how deviner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il prétendait deviner où était caché le trésor.
  2. 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.

ddeviner1deivner2devienr2devinerr1devinner1devinre2devnier2devviner1
Edit distance from "deviner"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "deviner"?
"deviner" is spelled D-E-V-I-N-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \də.vi.ne\.
What does "deviner" mean?
As a verb, "deviner" means: Prédire ce qui doit arriver, découvrir, par des sortilèges, ce qui est caché.
What words are commonly confused with "deviner"?
"deviner" is commonly confused with "diner", "devint", "divine". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "deviner"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "deviner" is \də.vi.ne\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "deviner" come from?
"deviner" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list