se dévêtir
\sə de.vɛ.tiʁ\
The verdict
“se dévêtir” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme pronominale de dévêtir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-se-devetir · se dévêtir · French
se dévêtir · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | se dévêtir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sə de.vɛ.tiʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « se dévêtir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
se dévêtir is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \sə de.vɛ.tiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forme pronominale de dévêtir.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for se dévêtir, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 se dévêtir, spelled S-E- -D-É-V-Ê-T-I-R.
Definition
- 1Forme pronominale de dévêtir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how se dévêtir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il se mit donc en devoir de se dévêtir, avant de procéder à sa toilette de nuit, et il commença naturellement par ôter son pardessus […].
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.