Which to use
“demos” is a noun and “Devos” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #17,118
- “demos” frequency rank
- #39,777
- “Devos” frequency rank
- 56895
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | demos | Devos |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | An ancient subdivision of Attica; (now also) a Greek municipality, an administrative area covering a city or several villages together. | A surname from Dutch. |
Letter map: demos vs Devos
Shared letters muted; letters that set demos and Devos apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.
Part-of-speech tell for demos / Devos
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: demos is anoun and Devosaname. On the page they differ by a single letter - m in “demos” becomes v in “Devos”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 56895, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
demos is recorded at frequency rank #17,118, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈdiːmɒs/. Devos is at rank #39,777, tagged as aname.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 56895, this pair ranks #122,990 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of demos vs Devos
Shared letters: deos. Private to "demos": m. Private to "Devos": v.
"demos" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC · "Devos" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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What to do next
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- Full dictionary entry for "demos" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "Devos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #122,990 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "demos" and "Devos" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "depose vs Devos". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #122,990 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.