dévoyé
\de.vwa.je\
The verdict
“dévoyé” is uncommon French (frequency #62,950 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,950
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui s’est éloigné de la droiture morale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-devoye · dévoyé · French
dévoyé · rank #62,950 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,950
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dévote
Nearest frequency peer: dévote (-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 « dévoyé »
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 « dévoyé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dévoyé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.vwa.je\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,950 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dévoyé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dévoyé is uncommon French at frequency #62,950 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \de.vwa.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui s’est éloigné de la droiture morale.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for dévoyé in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dévoyé, spelled D-É-V-O-Y-É.
Definition
- 1Qui s’est éloigné de la droiture morale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dévoyé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Raté, débauché, dévoyé, dévoué, tout s’expliquait, se justifiait et s’harmonisait en somme.
[Il] n'est peut-être pas moins dévoyé que le fils du notaire, à Rouen, qui comparaît devant les Assises pour un vol d'auto, une affaire de carambouillage ou un trafic de stupéfiants.
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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