dévorant
\de.vɔ.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“dévorant” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,006. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,006
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui dévore.
Corpus desk
Index FR-devorant · dévorant · French
dévorant · rank #45,006 · 13 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,006
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déviée
Nearest frequency peer: déviée (-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 « dévorant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- déstabilisa…
déstabilisant
54,999 corpus weight
- détectent
détectent
54,998 corpus weight
- déviée
déviée
54,996 corpus weight
- dévorant
dévorant
54,995 corpus weight
- EDM
EDM
54,993 corpus weight
- elder
elder
54,992 corpus weight
What this shows « dévorant » 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 | dévorant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.vɔ.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #45,006 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dévorant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around dévorant (IPA \de.vɔ.ʁɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #45,006 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for dévorant, with forms such as "ddévorant", "devorant", and "dvéorant". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "devrait", "devront", "dévorent", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is dévorant, spelled D-É-V-O-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui dévore.
- 2Qui consomme beaucoup ; qui excite à manger beaucoup et avidement.
- 3Qui consume, qui détruit avec plus ou moins de rapidité.
- 4Qui se fait sentir avec plus ou moins de violence, en parlant des choses, tant au sens physique qu’au sens moral.
- 5Se dit d’un poisson représenté la gueule ouverte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dévorant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et moi, je lui tendais les mains pour l'embrasser. Mais je n'ai plus trouvé qu'un horrible mélange D'os et de chairs meurtris et traînés dans la fange, Des lambeaux pleins de sang et des membres affreux Que des chiens dévorants se disputaient entre eux.
Faim, soif dévorante.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddévorant
- devorant
- dvéorant
- déovrant
- dévoarnt
- dévorannt
- dévorantt
- dévoratn
- dévornat
- dévorrant
- dévroant
- dévvorant
- édvorant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dévorant - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).