divonne
\di.vɔn\
The verdict
“divonne” is uncommon French (frequency #82,863 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,863
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fontaine sacrée des gaulois et des gallo-romains.
Corpus desk
Index FR-divonne · divonne · French
divonne · rank #82,863 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,863
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH diversions
Nearest frequency peer: diversions (-2 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 « divonne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- distri
distri
17,142 corpus weight
- distributri…
distributrice
17,141 corpus weight
- diversions
diversions
17,140 corpus weight
- divonne
divonne
17,138 corpus weight
- documentant
documentant
17,136 corpus weight
- dolomite
dolomite
17,134 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « divonne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | divonne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.vɔn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,863 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « divonne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
divonne is uncommon French at frequency #82,863 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \di.vɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fontaine sacrée des gaulois et des gallo-romains.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for divonne in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is divonne, spelled D-I-V-O-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Fontaine sacrée des gaulois et des gallo-romains.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how divonne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vis-à-vis, de l’autre côté de la rivière, était la charmante vallée du Tromeur, arrosée par une ancienne divonne ou fontaine sacrée, que le christianisme sanctifia en y rattachant le culte de la Vierge.
Quand à saint Hernin ou Thernen, il a pour spécialité de guérir des maux de tête. Sa fontaine — une antique divonne — est située sur le bord d'un chemin qui longe le cimetière.
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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