devise
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,050
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
devise is aFrenchnoun. It means: Figure accompagnée d’une phrase exprimant d’une manière allégorique et brève quelque pensée, quelque sentiment. Pronounced \də.viz\. It ranks #7,050 in French word frequency. Often confused with dise and devos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | devise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \də.viz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,050 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for devise is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \də.viz\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,050 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for devise, with forms such as "ddevise", "deivse", and "devies". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dise", "devos", "divine", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is devise, spelled D-E-V-I-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Figure accompagnée d’une phrase exprimant d’une manière allégorique et brève quelque pensée, quelque sentiment.
- 2Sentence qui accompagne les armoiries.
- 3Fasce réduite posée en chef.
- 4Un ou plusieurs mots exprimant la manière de penser, de sentir, d’agir de quelqu’un.
- 5Billets de banque de tel ou tel État.
- 6Monnaie d’un pays étranger ou non.
- 7Actif financier dont le cours a valeur monétaire.
- 8Ligne de démarcation entre propriétés.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddevise,deivse,devies,devisse,devsie,devvise,dveise,edvise
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "devise"
Frequency rank: #7,050 in French
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Nearby French words
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