divers
\di.vɛʁ\
The verdict
“divers” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,257. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,257
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est de nature ou de qualité différente, ou qui présente plusieurs faces, plusieurs apparences.
Corpus desk
Index FR-divers · divers · French
divers · rank #1,257 · 9 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,257
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH direct
Nearest frequency peer: direct (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « divers »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dame
dame
98,746 corpus weight
- direct
direct
98,745 corpus weight
- divers
divers
98,744 corpus weight
- effets
effets
98,743 corpus weight
- envers
envers
98,742 corpus weight
- expression
expression
98,741 corpus weight
What this shows « divers » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | divers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \di.vɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,257 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « divers »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around divers (IPA \di.vɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,257 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui est de nature ou de qualité différente, ou qui présente plusieurs faces, plusieurs apparences.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for divers, with forms such as "ddivers", "dievrs", and "diverrs". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "driver", "divins", "diverse", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is divers, spelled D-I-V-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Qui est de nature ou de qualité différente, ou qui présente plusieurs faces, plusieurs apparences.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how divers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La réalité est si infiniment diverse qu’elle échappe aux déductions les plus ingénieuses de la pensée abstraite ; elle ne souffre pas de classifications nettes et précises. La réalité tend toujours au morcellement, à la variété infinie.
Mais parfois son esprit curieux et divers s’échappait en aperçus critiques d’une grande liberté.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddivers
- dievrs
- diverrs
- diverss
- divesr
- divres
- divvers
- dviers
- idvers
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of divers - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).