diviseur

/\di.vi.zœʁ\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#45,552

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

diviseur is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nombre par lequel on divise un autre nombre, ce dernier étant appelé le dividende. Pronounced \di.vi.zœʁ\. Often confused with divisé and diviser.

Key facts for diviseur
PropertyValue
Headworddiviseur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\di.vi.zœʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#45,552
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of diviseur in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for diviseur is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \di.vi.zœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #45,552 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for diviseur, with forms such as "ddiviseur", "diivseur", and "diviesur". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "divisé", "diviser", "divisée", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is diviseur, spelled D-I-V-I-S-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nombre par lequel on divise un autre nombre, ce dernier étant appelé le dividende.
  2. 2
    Nombre entier qui divise un autre nombre entier sans reste.
  3. 3
    Élément d'un monoïde commutatif (resp. d'un anneau commutatif) qui peut être composé (resp. multiplié) avec un autre pour former un certain élément (qui est indiqué après la préposition de).
  4. 4
    Montage électronique permettant de diviser le courant ou la tension.
  5. 5
    Celui qui est cause de division, de désunion.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ddiviseur,diivseur,diviesur,diviseru,diviseurr,divisseur,divisuer,divsieur,divviseur,dviiseur,idviseur

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for diviseur

Misspelling Variants of "diviseur"

ddiviseur9diivseur8diviesur8diviseru8diviseurr9divisseur9divisuer8divsieur8
Misspelling Variants of "diviseur"

Frequency rank: #45,552 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "diviseur"?
"diviseur" is spelled D-I-V-I-S-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \di.vi.zœʁ\.
What does "diviseur" mean?
As a noun, "diviseur" means: Nombre par lequel on divise un autre nombre, ce dernier étant appelé le dividende.
What words are commonly confused with "diviseur"?
"diviseur" is commonly confused with "divisé", "diviser", "divisée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "diviseur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "diviseur" is \di.vi.zœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "diviseur" come from?
"diviseur" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.