divague
\di.vaɡ\
The verdict
“divague” is uncommon French (frequency #65,086 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,086
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de divaguer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-divague · divague · French
divague · rank #65,086 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,086
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dithyrambique
Nearest frequency peer: dithyrambique (-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 « divague »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dissension
dissension
34,918 corpus weight
- dithyrambiq…
dithyrambique
34,916 corpus weight
- divague
divague
34,915 corpus weight
- diviseurs
diviseurs
34,914 corpus weight
- dormons
dormons
34,913 corpus weight
- Duby
Duby
34,912 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « divague » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | divague |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \di.vaɡ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,086 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « divague » en français
Rare enough to double-check
divague is uncommon French at frequency #65,086 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \di.vaɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for divague in our index, 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is divague, spelled D-I-V-A-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de divaguer.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de divaguer.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de divaguer.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de divaguer.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de divaguer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how divague appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je divague en rimant, je dispose mes vers, Je sonnette parfois, en me croyant poète, J’essaie, avec grand mal, de porter l’étiquette Mais je ne suis qu’un ver indigne de Prévert.
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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