Demeter
/dɪˈmiːtə/
"demeter" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Demeter” is uncommon English (frequency #57,973 among 26,416 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,973
- frequency rank, English
- 26,416
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The goddess of the fertility of the Earth and harvests, protector of marriage and social order; daughter of Cronos and Rhea, mother to Persephone.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Demeter |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /dɪˈmiːtə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,973 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Demeter” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Demeter is uncommon English at frequency #57,973 among 26,416 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /dɪˈmiːtə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Demeter, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Ancient Greek Δημήτηρ (Dēmḗtēr), from γῆ (gê, “earth”) + μήτηρ (mḗtēr, “mother”). The correct English form is Demeter, spelled D-E-M-E-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1The goddess of the fertility of the Earth and harvests, protector of marriage and social order; daughter of Cronos and Rhea, mother to Persephone.
- 21108 Demeter, a main belt asteroid.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Δημήτηρ (Dēmḗtēr), from γῆ (gê, “earth”) + μήτηρ (mḗtēr, “mother”).
This word in other languages
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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Using “Demeter”
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- The one correct English spelling is D-E-M-E-T-E-R - 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.