dévoreur
\de.vɔ.ʁœʁ\
The verdict
“dévoreur” is uncommon French (frequency #87,581 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,581
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui dévore, généralement au sens figuré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-devoreur · dévoreur · French
dévoreur · rank #87,581 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,581
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dévastent
Nearest frequency peer: dévastent (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « dévoreur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- détraquée
détraquée
12,423 corpus weight
- dévastations
dévastations
12,422 corpus weight
- dévastent
dévastent
12,421 corpus weight
- dévoreur
dévoreur
12,420 corpus weight
- ead
ead
12,419 corpus weight
- effarée
effarée
12,418 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dévoreur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dévoreur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.vɔ.ʁœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,581 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dévoreur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dévoreur is uncommon French at frequency #87,581 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.vɔ.ʁœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui qui dévore, généralement au sens figuré.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for dévoreur in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dévoreur, spelled D-É-V-O-R-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui dévore, généralement au sens figuré.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dévoreur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pas plus que nous ne dramatiserons outre mesure les risques encourus, nous ne céderons à ce snobisme pour aventurier de salon, qui consiste à proclamer haut et fort que les requins ne sont pas dangereux quand on sait les prendre ! Prétendre amadouer dans un élément marin qui n’est pas le nôtre des dévoreurs qui peuvent atteindre 10 m de long, mais dont le…
Un dévoreur de livres.
Synonyms
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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