dement

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for dement is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [deˈmɛnt]. Corpus data places it at rank #66,118 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "an Demenz leidend".

No misspelling variants are generated for dement in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 German form is dement, spelled D-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.