divertir
\di.vɛʁ.tiʁ\
The verdict
“divertir” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,927. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,927
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Détourner de ce qui préoccupe, fatigue, ennuie en amusant, en récréant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-divertir · divertir · French
divertir · rank #17,927 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,927
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH disparaitre
Nearest frequency peer: disparaitre (-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 « divertir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dirigeante
dirigeante
82,076 corpus weight
- disparaitre
disparaitre
82,075 corpus weight
- divertir
divertir
82,074 corpus weight
- Dominic
Dominic
82,073 corpus weight
- dominicaine
dominicaine
82,072 corpus weight
- dong
dong
82,071 corpus weight
What this shows « divertir » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | divertir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \di.vɛʁ.tiʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,927 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « divertir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around divertir (IPA \di.vɛʁ.tiʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #17,927 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for divertir, with forms such as "ddivertir", "dievrtir", and "diveritr". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is divertir, spelled D-I-V-E-R-T-I-R.
Definition
- 1Détourner de ce qui préoccupe, fatigue, ennuie en amusant, en récréant.
- 2Détourner d’une occupation, d’un dessein.
- 3Faire diversion.
- 4Soustraire, dérober, s’approprier illégitimement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how divertir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dès que tout fut en ordre, les industrieux animaux [les castors] prirent un moment de récréation, se poursuivant dans l’étang, plongeant au fond de l’eau ou jouant à la surface, en frappant à grand bruit l’eau de leurs queues. […]. Tandis que les premiers se divertissaient ainsi, deux autres membres de la communauté parurent.
Divertir quelqu’un de ses travaux. - Il avait formé un projet peu raisonnable, je l’en ai diverti.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddivertir
- dievrtir
- diveritr
- diverrtir
- divertirr
- divertri
- diverttir
- divetrir
- divretir
- divvertir
- dviertir
- idvertir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of divertir - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).