dévoiler
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,160
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
dévoiler is aFrenchverb. It means: Découvrir ce qui était couvert d’un voile. Pronounced \de.vwa.le\. It ranks #9,160 in French word frequency. Often confused with devoir and dévorer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dévoiler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.vwa.le\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,160 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dévoiler is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.vwa.le\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,160 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for dévoiler, with forms such as "ddévoiler", "devoiler", and "dvéoiler". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "devoir", "dévorer", "dévoilera", 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 dévoiler, spelled D-É-V-O-I-L-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Découvrir ce qui était couvert d’un voile.
- 2Relever une religieuse de ses vœux.
- 3Dans une acception plus générale, dégarnir une chose d’un voile, de ce qui la cachait.
- 4Découvrir, rendre publique une chose qui était cachée, secrète ou simplement inconnue du public.
- 5Redresser une roue voilée.
- 6(réfléchi) Retirer son propre voile.
- 7(réfléchi) Cesser de se dissimuler, de dissimuler ses sentiments, ses intentions.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddévoiler,devoiler,dvéoiler,déoviler,dévioler,dévoielr,dévoilerr,dévoiller,dévoilre,dévolier,dévvoiler,édvoiler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "dévoiler"
Frequency rank: #9,160 in French
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Nearby French words
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