dévore
\de.vɔʁ\
The verdict
“dévore” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,838. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,838
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de dévorer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-devore · dévore · French
dévore · rank #22,838 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,838
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH embarcation
Nearest frequency peer: embarcation (+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 « dévore »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- déroulait
déroulait
77,167 corpus weight
- désagréables
désagréables
77,166 corpus weight
- dévore
dévore
77,163 corpus weight
- embarcation
embarcation
77,162 corpus weight
- embrassent
embrassent
77,161 corpus weight
- encouragée
encouragée
77,160 corpus weight
What this shows « dévore » 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 | dévore |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.vɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #22,838 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dévore »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around dévore (IPA \de.vɔʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #22,838 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for dévore, with forms such as "ddévore", "devore", and "dvéore". 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, "doré", "devra", "devos", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 dévore, spelled D-É-V-O-R-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de dévorer.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de dévorer.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de dévorer.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de dévorer.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de dévorer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dévore appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La possession-destruction s’actualise quand le sujet, possédé par exemple par une bête humanisée et hommisée qui le dévore de l’intérieur, finit par mourir de cachexie, comme chez A. Doremieux : « Symbiose phase un » (in Couloirs sans issue) ou « Les bêtes » (Promenades au bord du gouffre).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddévore
- devore
- dvéore
- déovre
- dévoer
- dévroe
- dévvore
- édvore
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dévore - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dévore", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).