demon
/ˈdiː.mən/noun
demon is spelled D-E-M-O-N: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,456th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “daemon vs demon” about 1,600 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, demon means “An evil being resident in or working for Hell; a devil” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of demon is demons.
How many letters and syllables are in demon?
| Letters | 5: D-E-M-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 11 times per million words; the 6,456th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is demon?
Demon appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,456th 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 demon?
- /ˈdiː.mən/
Demon has 2 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)-Vealhurl-demon.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with demon
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: daemon (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: daemon.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with demon?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as demon.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: monde.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of demon
- demons plural
- daimon
- daemon
- dæmon
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does demon mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An evil being resident in or working for Hell; a devil.
- 2
A false god or idol; a Satanic divinity.
- 3
A very wicked or malevolent person; also (in weakened sense) a mischievous person, especially a child.
- 4
A source (especially personified) of great evil or wickedness; a destructive feeling or character flaw.
The demon of stupidity haunts me whenever I open my mouth.
- 5
A person's fears or anxieties.
- 6
A person's inner spirit or genius; a guiding or creative impulse.
- 7
A tutelary deity or spirit intermediate between the major Olympian gods and mankind, especially a deified hero or the entity which supposedly guided Socrates, telling him what not to do.
- 8
A supernatural being not considered to be inherently evil; a (non-Christian) deity.
- 9
Acronym of distinct electron motion particle: a quasiparticle, a type of massless neutral electron excitation associated with superconductivity.
- 10
Alternative spelling of daemon.
noun
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of demon (“card game”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Demon in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | démon , diable |
| German | Dämon, Teufel |
| Portuguese | demônio, demónio |
| Spanish | demonio, shapshico, mengue, demonche, demontre, diantre |
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.
Where does demon come from?
From Middle English demon, a borrowing from Medieval Latin dēmōn, daemōn (“lar, familiar spirit, guardian spirit”), from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “dispenser, god, protective spirit”). Displaced native Old English sċucca (“evil spirit”) and Old English þyrs (“ogre or monster”). Doublet of daimon.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).