demilitarized
/dɪˈmɪlɪtəɹaɪzd/
"demilitarized" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“demilitarized” is uncommon English (frequency #54,735 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,735
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Declared free of all military activity.
Corpus desk
Index EN-demilitarized · demilitarized · English
demilitarized · rank #54,735 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,735
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Deleuze
Nearest frequency peer: Deleuze (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “demilitarized”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Deering
Deering
45,270 corpus weight
- Deleuze
Deleuze
45,267 corpus weight
- demilitariz…
demilitarized
45,266 corpus weight
- detestable
detestable
45,264 corpus weight
- Diggin
Diggin
45,263 corpus weight
- disastrously
disastrously
45,262 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “demilitarized” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | demilitarized |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /dɪˈmɪlɪtəɹaɪzd/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #54,735 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “demilitarized” in English
Rare enough to double-check
demilitarized is uncommon English at frequency #54,735 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /dɪˈmɪlɪtəɹaɪzd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Declared free of all military activity.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for demilitarized, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is demilitarized, spelled D-E-M-I-L-I-T-A-R-I-Z-E-D.
Definition
- 1Declared free of all military activity.
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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