dévolution
\de.vɔ.ly.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“dévolution” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,311. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,311
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Transfert, transmission d’un bien, d’une succession, d’un avantage, etc., qui se fait d’une personne à une autre en vertu d’un droit dévolu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-devolution · dévolution · French
dévolution · rank #47,311 · 15 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,311
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH détrompez
Nearest frequency peer: détrompez (-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 « dévolution »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- désordonnée
désordonnée
52,693 corpus weight
- désuète
désuète
52,692 corpus weight
- détrompez
détrompez
52,691 corpus weight
- dévolution
dévolution
52,690 corpus weight
- Easter
Easter
52,689 corpus weight
- efforçant
efforçant
52,688 corpus weight
What this shows « dévolution » 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 | dévolution |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.vɔ.ly.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #47,311 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dévolution »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around dévolution (IPA \de.vɔ.ly.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,311 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for dévolution, with forms such as "ddévolution", "devolution", and "dvéolution". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "démolition", "désolation", "dévaluation", 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is dévolution, spelled D-É-V-O-L-U-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Transfert, transmission d’un bien, d’une succession, d’un avantage, etc., qui se fait d’une personne à une autre en vertu d’un droit dévolu.
- 2Acte par lequel un enseignant fait accepter à l’élève la responsabilité d’une situation d’apprentissage ou d’un problème et accepte lui-même les conséquences de ce transfert.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dévolution appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y eut dévolution de la ligne paternelle à la ligne maternelle.
Les biens de celui qui meurt sans héritier passent à l’État par dévolution, s’il n’existe pas de testament.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddévolution
- devolution
- dvéolution
- déovlution
- dévloution
- dévollution
- dévoltuion
- dévoluiton
- dévolutino
- dévolutionn
- dévolutoin
- dévoluttion
- dévoultion
- dévvolution
- édvolution
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dévolution - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).