dives
\div\
The verdict
“dives” is uncommon French (frequency #65,863 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,863
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de dive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dives · dives · French
dives · rank #65,863 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,863
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dissidences
Nearest frequency peer: dissidences (-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 « dives »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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discretion
34,141 corpus weight
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dispendieuse
34,140 corpus weight
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dissidences
34,139 corpus weight
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dives
34,138 corpus weight
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docilement
34,137 corpus weight
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dogon
34,136 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dives » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \div\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,863 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dives » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dives is uncommon French at frequency #65,863 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \div\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de dive.".
No misspelling variants are generated for dives in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dives, spelled D-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de dive.
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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