dévote
\de.vɔt\
The verdict
“dévote” is uncommon French (frequency #62,949 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,949
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme dévote, pratiquante.
Corpus desk
Index FR-devote · dévote · French
dévote · rank #62,949 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,949
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dévaster
Nearest frequency peer: dévaster (-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 « dévote »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- déracinement
déracinement
37,056 corpus weight
- dérangeantes
dérangeantes
37,055 corpus weight
- dévaster
dévaster
37,053 corpus weight
- dévote
dévote
37,052 corpus weight
- dévoyé
dévoyé
37,051 corpus weight
- Edme
Edme
37,048 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dévote » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dévote |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.vɔt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,949 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dévote » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dévote is uncommon French at frequency #62,949 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.vɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Femme dévote, pratiquante.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dévote, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is dévote, spelled D-É-V-O-T-E.
Definition
- 1Femme dévote, pratiquante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dévote appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par compensation, un beau surnuméraire, jeune de ses fringants dix-neuf ans, apparaît à une dévote dans le simple appareil d’un homme qui se barbifie.
Il remet à la dévote sa feuille cléricale, au concierge sa gazette nationaliste, où pullulent les faits-divers (rubrique des « chiens écrasés » ), à la midinette son journal à nouvelles et à feuilletons, à chacun de quoi se fournir d'opinions pour toute la journée.
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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