divans
\di.vɑ̃\
The verdict
“divans” is uncommon French (frequency #79,225 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,225
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de divan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-divans · divans · French
divans · rank #79,225 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,225
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dition
Nearest frequency peer: dition (-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 « divans »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- diffusaient
diffusaient
20,780 corpus weight
- disruptive
disruptive
20,778 corpus weight
- dition
dition
20,777 corpus weight
- divans
divans
20,776 corpus weight
- documentali…
documentalistes
20,775 corpus weight
- dolbeau
dolbeau
20,774 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « divans » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | divans |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.vɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,225 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « divans » en français
Rare enough to double-check
divans is uncommon French at frequency #79,225 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \di.vɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de divan.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for divans, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is divans, spelled D-I-V-A-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de divan.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how divans appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le billard a des rideaux de calicot gris avec des bordures vertes et deux divans.
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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