devon
\də.vɔ̃\
The verdict
“devon” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,540. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,540
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poisson artificiel servant d’appât.
Corpus desk
Index FR-devon · devon · French
devon · rank #24,540 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,540
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH destiny
Nearest frequency peer: destiny (-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 « devon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Delmas
Delmas
75,464 corpus weight
- descentes
descentes
75,463 corpus weight
- destiny
destiny
75,462 corpus weight
- devon
devon
75,461 corpus weight
- discord
discord
75,460 corpus weight
- discriminat…
discriminatoire
75,459 corpus weight
What this shows « devon » 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 | devon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \də.vɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #24,540 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « devon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around devon (IPA \də.vɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,540 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Poisson artificiel servant d’appât.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for devon, with forms such as "ddevon", "deovn", and "devno". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "don", "dion", "devra", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is devon, spelled D-E-V-O-N.
Definition
- 1Poisson artificiel servant d’appât.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how devon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je lui ai montré comment plomber la ligne de façon que le devon — vous savez sans doute que c’est le nom donné au poisson artificiel — de façon que le devon, dis-je, ne navigue ni trop près du fond, ni trop près de la surface.
Lors de notre récente visite à la fin avril , les poissons aux multiples coloris réagissaient bien avec des petits tubes, des devons de moins de 11 cm et les traditionnelles cuillères métalliques accompagnées d’un ver de terre.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddevon
- deovn
- devno
- devonn
- devvon
- dveon
- edvon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of devon - 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).