devo
\ˈdeː.vo\
The verdict
“devo” is uncommon French (frequency #75,595 among 404,891 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,595
- frequency rank, French
- 404,891
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du futur de l’indicatif du verbe deviñ.
Corpus desk
Index FR-devo · devo · French
devo · rank #75,595 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,595
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 404,891
- PHOTO-FINISH digérés
Nearest frequency peer: digérés (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “devo”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- deuce
deuce
24,410 corpus weight
- devancière
devancière
24,408 corpus weight
- devo
devo
24,406 corpus weight
- digérés
digérés
24,405 corpus weight
- dildo
dildo
24,404 corpus weight
- diorama
diorama
24,403 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “devo” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | devo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈdeː.vo\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #75,595 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “devo” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
devo is uncommon French at frequency #75,595 among 404,891 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈdeː.vo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du futur de l’indicatif du verbe deviñ.".
devo has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is devo, spelled D-E-V-O.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du futur de l’indicatif du verbe deviñ.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.