divaguer
\di.va.ɡe\
The verdict
“divaguer” is uncommon French (frequency #68,994 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,994
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Errer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-divaguer · divaguer · French
divaguer · rank #68,994 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,994
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dissèque
Nearest frequency peer: dissèque (-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 « divaguer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dispersant
dispersant
31,010 corpus weight
- dissipent
dissipent
31,009 corpus weight
- dissèque
dissèque
31,008 corpus weight
- divaguer
divaguer
31,007 corpus weight
- domaniales
domaniales
31,006 corpus weight
- dorn
dorn
31,005 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « divaguer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | divaguer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \di.va.ɡe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,994 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « divaguer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
divaguer is uncommon French at frequency #68,994 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \di.va.ɡe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for divaguer, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is divaguer, spelled D-I-V-A-G-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Errer.
- 2Avoir un tracé sinueux.
- 3S’écarter de la question, du sujet sur lequel on parle ou on écrit, laisser libre cours à son imagination.
- 4Dire des absurdités, dérailler, déraisonner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how divaguer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un veau échappé divague sur la route, l’œil rond, effaré, sa vignette jaune agrafée à l’oreille.
Je n’étais qu’une âme errante qui divaguait ça et là dans la campagne pour user les jours.
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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