div
\div\
The verdict
“div” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,407) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,407
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Type de balise HTML servant à délimiter un bloc de texte d’une ou plusieurs lignes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-div · div · French
div · rank #27,407 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,407
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH distractions
Nearest frequency peer: distractions (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « div »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- disposée
disposée
72,596 corpus weight
- distractions
distractions
72,595 corpus weight
- div
div
72,594 corpus weight
- divorcée
divorcée
72,593 corpus weight
- douanier
douanier
72,592 corpus weight
- doucher
doucher
72,591 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « div » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | div |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \div\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #27,407 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « div »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for div is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "dr", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \div\. Frequency #27,407 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Type de balise HTML servant à délimiter un bloc de texte d’une ou plusieurs lignes.".
No misspelling variants are generated for div in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "dr", "do", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is div, spelled D-I-V.
Definition
- 1Type de balise HTML servant à délimiter un bloc de texte d’une ou plusieurs lignes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how div appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors la solution est de mettre un div en bas de page, de mettre le code dedans et d'afficher le div en absolute là où on veut dans la page.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).