diviseur

\di.vi.zœʁ\

/\di.vi.zœʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“diviseur” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,552. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#45,552
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nombre par lequel on divise un autre nombre, ce dernier étant appelé le dividende.

Corpus desk

Index FR-diviseur · diviseur · French

diviseur · rank #45,552 · 11 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #45,552
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH distantes

Nearest frequency peer: distantes (-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 « diviseur »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « diviseur » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

diviseur vs divisé
63% similar
diviseur vs diviser
88% similar
diviseur vs divisée
63% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

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)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « diviseur »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).diviseurse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « distantes » (#45,551), « dommageables » (#45,553), « disséquer » (#45,550). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « diviseur » est au #45,552. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around diviseur (IPA \di.vi.zœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,552 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for diviseur, with forms such as "ddiviseur", "diivseur", and "diviesur". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "divisé", "diviser", "divisée", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is diviseur, spelled D-I-V-I-S-E-U-R.

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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how diviseur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le dividende s’écrit à la gauche du diviseur, dont on le sépare par un trait vertical.
  2. La fraction 4/6 n’est pas sous forme irréductible car 4 et 6 ont en plus de 1 le nombre 2 comme diviseur commun. Cette fraction est donc simplifiable et on a : 4/6=(2×2)/(2×3)=2/3 en simplifiant par 2 en haut et en bas.

Synonyms

dénominateur

This word in other languages

divisor(English)divisor(Español)Divisor(Deutsch)divisor(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddiviseur
  • diivseur
  • diviesur
  • diviseru
  • diviseurr
  • divisseur
  • divisuer
  • divsieur
  • divviseur
  • dviiseur
  • idviseur

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of diviseur - 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.

ddiviseur1diivseur2diviesur2diviseru2diviseurr1divisseur1divisuer2divsieur2
Edit distance from "diviseur"

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.

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's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "diviseur", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list