devrais
\də.vʁɛ\
The verdict
“devrais” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,273. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,273
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du conditionnel de devoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-devrais · devrais · French
devrais · rank #2,273 · 10 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,273
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH crée
Nearest frequency peer: crée (-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 « devrais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- correspond
correspond
97,731 corpus weight
- coucher
coucher
97,730 corpus weight
- crée
crée
97,729 corpus weight
- devrais
devrais
97,728 corpus weight
- di
di
97,727 corpus weight
- entends
entends
97,726 corpus weight
What this shows « devrais » 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 | devrais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \də.vʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,273 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « devrais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around devrais (IPA \də.vʁɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #2,273 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for devrais, with forms such as "ddevrais", "dervais", and "devaris". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "dirais", "devras", "devrait", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is devrais, spelled D-E-V-R-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du conditionnel de devoir.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du conditionnel de devoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how devrais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La Présidente (Mme St-Pierre) : Est-ce qu’il y a d’autres commentaires? Mme Charbonneau : Un tout petit, Mme la Présidente, pour dire au ministre, vous savez, où j’habite, à Laval, juste en avant de l’immeuble où j’habite il y a une pancarte qui dit que si je suis stationnée là puis je ne devrais pas l’être, je vais être «towée» et que ce geste-là sera à…
Tu ne devrais pas la réinviter.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddevrais
- dervais
- devaris
- devraiss
- devrasi
- devrias
- devrrais
- devvrais
- dverais
- edvrais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of devrais - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "devrais", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).