demented
/dɪˈmɛntɪd/adjective, verb
demented is spelled D-E-M-E-N-T-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is dimented: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 36 of all searches for the word. Demented is an adjective meaning “Insane; mentally ill”.
How many letters and syllables are in demented?
| Letters | 8: D-E-M-E-N-T-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 30,017th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, dimented, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell demented?
Demented is spelled D-E-M-E-N-T-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 36 of the searches for demented in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is demented?
Demented appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,017th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce demented?
- /dɪˈmɛntɪd/
Demented has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-demented.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of demented
- more demented comparative
- most demented superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does demented mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Insane; mentally ill.
- 2
Having dementia.
- 3
informalCrazy; ridiculous.
a demented idea
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of dement
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Demented in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | dément |
| German | wahnsinnig, verrückt , dement |
| Spanish | demencial, demente , demenciado |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.