diverge
\di.vɛʁʒ\
The verdict
“diverge” is uncommon French (frequency #57,877 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,877
- 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 diverger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-diverge · diverge · French
diverge · rank #57,877 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,877
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH distrib
Nearest frequency peer: distrib (-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 « diverge »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- disquaire
disquaire
42,127 corpus weight
- dissocie
dissocie
42,126 corpus weight
- distrib
distrib
42,125 corpus weight
- diverge
diverge
42,124 corpus weight
- doudous
doudous
42,123 corpus weight
- draconiennes
draconiennes
42,122 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « diverge » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diverge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \di.vɛʁʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,877 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « diverge » en français
Rare enough to double-check
diverge is uncommon French at frequency #57,877 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \di.vɛʁʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for diverge in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 diverge, spelled D-I-V-E-R-G-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de diverger.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de diverger.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de diverger.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de diverger.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de diverger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how diverge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En revanche, leur perception diverge quant à ce résultat : le professeur A estime que la quantité de matière parcourue par unité de temps est "un peu diminuée" tandis que le professeur B la considère comme légèrement augmentée (en raison de "la meilleure préparation du cours qui le force à "prérépondre" aux questions habituelles des étudiants).
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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