divagation
\di.va.ɡa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“divagation” is uncommon French (frequency #84,705 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,705
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Errance d’un animal sur la voie publique ou sur des propriétés privées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-divagation · divagation · French
divagation · rank #84,705 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,705
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH discrétionnai…
Nearest frequency peer: discrétionnaires (-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 « divagation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- diminueront
diminueront
15,299 corpus weight
- dinky
dinky
15,298 corpus weight
- discrétionn…
discrétionnaires
15,297 corpus weight
- divagation
divagation
15,296 corpus weight
- diètes
diètes
15,295 corpus weight
- dormirait
dormirait
15,294 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « divagation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | divagation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.va.ɡa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #84,705 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « divagation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
divagation is uncommon French at frequency #84,705 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \di.va.ɡa.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for divagation in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is divagation, spelled D-I-V-A-G-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Errance d’un animal sur la voie publique ou sur des propriétés privées.
- 2Action de s’écarter de la question, du sujet sur lequel on parle ou on écrit.
- 3Propos incohérents qui marquent le désordre d’esprit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how divagation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour l’application des articles L. 211-21 et L. 211-22, le maire prend toutes dispositions de nature à permettre une prise en charge rapide de tout animal errant ou en état de divagation qui serait trouvé accidenté…
Dans une optique agro-écologique, l’agriculture en tire alors des bénéfices significatifs, comme dans la zone cotonnière du sud du Mali : diversification des revenus des paysans, protection des sols et limitation de la divagation des animaux par l’embocagement, enrichissement des sols, utilisation des tourteaux comme engrais organiques.
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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