devinette

\də.vi.nɛt\

/\də.vi.nɛt\/ noun

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The verdict

“devinette” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,748. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#38,748
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Question à deviner par manière de jeu.

Corpus desk

Index FR-devinette · devinette · French

devinette · rank #38,748 · 11 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #38,748
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH devanture

Nearest frequency peer: devanture (-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 « devinette »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « devinette » 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).

devinette vs devinettes
90% similar

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

Key facts for devinette
PropertyValue
Headworddevinette
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\də.vi.nɛt\
Letters9
Frequency rank#38,748
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « devinette »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).devinettese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « devanture » (#38,747), « dF » (#38,749), « destituer » (#38,746). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « devinette » est au #38,748. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around devinette (IPA \də.vi.nɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,748 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Question à deviner par manière de jeu.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for devinette, with forms such as "ddevinette", "deivnette", and "devientte". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "devinettes", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

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 devinette, spelled D-E-V-I-N-E-T-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Question à deviner par manière de jeu.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Il y a une espèce de curiosité innée et naturelle de l’être humain à résoudre des devinettes.
  2. Il est pourtant le héros d'une devinette qu'on verrait très bien quelque curé de village poser aux « râces » du petit catéchisme : Qu'est-ce que le Bon Dieu ne peut pas faire ?

This word in other languages

riddle(English)adivinanza(Español)Rätsel(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddevinette
  • deivnette
  • devientte
  • devinete
  • devinetet
  • devinnette
  • devintete
  • devniette
  • devvinette
  • dveinette
  • edvinette

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of devinette - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ddevinette1deivnette2devientte2devinete1devinetet2devinnette1devintete2devniette2
Edit distance from "devinette"

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 "devinette"?
"devinette" is spelled D-E-V-I-N-E-T-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \də.vi.nɛt\.
What does "devinette" mean?
As a noun, "devinette" means: Question à deviner par manière de jeu.
What words are commonly confused with "devinette"?
"devinette" is commonly confused with "devinettes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "devinette"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "devinette" is \də.vi.nɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "devinette" come from?
"devinette" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "devinette", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

devanture#38,747destituer#38,746distancer#38,753contrôlez#38,728

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

dockers11 variantscouvreur11 variantsdéraper11 variantscomfort11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list