divagations
\di.va.ɡa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“divagations” is uncommon French (frequency #55,881 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,881
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de divagation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-divagations · divagations · French
divagations · rank #55,881 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,881
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH diurétique
Nearest frequency peer: diurétique (-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 « divagations »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- disproporti…
disproportionnés
44,123 corpus weight
- distrayant
distrayant
44,122 corpus weight
- diurétique
diurétique
44,121 corpus weight
- divagations
divagations
44,120 corpus weight
- documentali…
documentaliste
44,119 corpus weight
- dompteur
dompteur
44,118 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « divagations » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | divagations |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.va.ɡa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #55,881 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « divagations » en français
Rare enough to double-check
divagations is uncommon French at frequency #55,881 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \di.va.ɡa.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de divagation.".
divagations has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is divagations, spelled D-I-V-A-G-A-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de divagation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how divagations appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« La collection du musée regorge de ces représentations qui dessinent une palette d’émotions amoureuses. Les artistes évoquent, d’après nature ou dans l’intimité de leur atelier, le fruit de leurs observations ou leurs propres divagations » poursuit Damien Chantrenne, directeur du musée.
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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