devions
\də.vjɔ̃\
The verdict
“devions” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,110. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,110
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de devoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-devions · devions · French
devions · rank #17,110 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,110
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH deniers
Nearest frequency peer: deniers (-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 « devions »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cultivées
cultivées
82,894 corpus weight
- demoiselles
demoiselles
82,893 corpus weight
- deniers
deniers
82,892 corpus weight
- devions
devions
82,891 corpus weight
- diagonale
diagonale
82,890 corpus weight
- Diderot
Diderot
82,889 corpus weight
What this shows « devions » 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 | devions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \də.vjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #17,110 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « devions »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around devions (IPA \də.vjɔ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #17,110 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for devions, with forms such as "ddevions", "deivons", and "devinos". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "devis", "devon", "devos", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is devions, spelled D-E-V-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de devoir.
- 2Première personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de devoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how devions appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous devions l’empêcher de s’établir à Pétersbourg et dans le golfe de Finlande ; nous devions pénétrer, après avoir battu les troupes bolchevistes, à travers la Livonie et l’Esthonie jusqu’à Narva afin de pouvoir, de là même, agir à temps.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddevions
- deivons
- devinos
- devionns
- devionss
- deviosn
- devoins
- devvions
- dveions
- edvions
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of devions - 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
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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).