devotion
[dɪ.ˈvoʊ.ʃən]
The verdict
“devotion” is uncommon French (frequency #92,619 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,619
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dévouement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-devotion · devotion · French
devotion · rank #92,619 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,619
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Desdémone
Nearest frequency peer: Desdémone (-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 « devotion »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- debrief
debrief
7,386 corpus weight
- deputy
deputy
7,384 corpus weight
- Desdémone
Desdémone
7,383 corpus weight
- devotion
devotion
7,382 corpus weight
- DHA
DHA
7,380 corpus weight
- dilapide
dilapide
7,379 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « devotion » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | devotion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [dɪ.ˈvoʊ.ʃən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,619 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « devotion » en français
Rare enough to double-check
devotion is uncommon French at frequency #92,619 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [dɪ.ˈvoʊ.ʃən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for devotion in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is devotion, spelled D-E-V-O-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Dévouement.
- 2Dévotion, piété.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how devotion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Her devotion to the cause gained her the respect of her comrades.
Her devotion was the source of her respect in the Church.
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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