Asmodeus
/ˌæz.məˈdiː.əs/
"asmodeus" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Asmodeus” is an uncommon English word, ranked #94,539 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #94,539
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The king of demons in Jewish tradition, and thought to represent lust in Christian demonology.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Asmodeus |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˌæz.məˈdiː.əs/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #94,539 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Asmodeus” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Asmodeus is 8 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌæz.məˈdiː.əs/. Corpus data places it at rank #94,539 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "The king of demons in Jewish tradition, and thought to represent lust in Christian demonology.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Asmodeus in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Ancient Greek Ἀσμοδαῖος (Asmodaîos). Believed to ultimately come from an unattested Avestan *𐬀𐬉𐬴𐬨𐬀𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬎𐬎𐬀 (*aēṣ̌madaēuua, from a compound of 𐬀𐬉𐬱𐬆𐬨𐬀 (aēšəma, “wrath”) + 𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬎𐬎𐬀 (daēuua, “demon”)). Doublet of Ashmedai: a borrowing fr… The correct English form is Asmodeus, spelled A-S-M-O-D-E-U-S.
Definition
- 1The king of demons in Jewish tradition, and thought to represent lust in Christian demonology.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ἀσμοδαῖος (Asmodaîos). Believed to ultimately come from an unattested Avestan *𐬀𐬉𐬴𐬨𐬀𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬎𐬎𐬀 (*aēṣ̌madaēuua, from a compound of 𐬀𐬉𐬱𐬆𐬨𐬀 (aēšəma, “wrath”) + 𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬎𐬎𐬀 (daēuua, “demon”)). Doublet of Ashmedai: a borrowing from Hebrew.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct English spelling is A-S-M-O-D-E-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.