divertissent
\di.vɛʁ.tis\
The verdict
“divertissent” is uncommon French (frequency #89,609 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,609
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de divertir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-divertissent · divertissent · French
divertissent · rank #89,609 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,609
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH discrédités
Nearest frequency peer: discrédités (-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 « divertissent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dioxygène
dioxygène
10,395 corpus weight
- discriminées
discriminées
10,394 corpus weight
- discrédités
discrédités
10,393 corpus weight
- divertissent
divertissent
10,392 corpus weight
- divisera
divisera
10,391 corpus weight
- DMLA
DMLA
10,390 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « divertissent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | divertissent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \di.vɛʁ.tis\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #89,609 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « divertissent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
divertissent is uncommon French at frequency #89,609 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \di.vɛʁ.tis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for divertissent in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is divertissent, spelled D-I-V-E-R-T-I-S-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de divertir.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif imparfait de divertir.
- 3Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de divertir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how divertissent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On argumente par l’étymologie, quand on dit, par exemple, que plusieurs personnes du monde ne se divertissent jamais, à proprement parler; parce que se divertir, c’est se désappliquer des occupations sérieuses, et qu’elles ne s’occupent jamais sérieusement.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).