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demonise

verb

demonise is spelled D-E-M-O-N-I-S-E: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 88,353rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, demonise means “Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of demonize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in demonise?

Letters8: D-E-M-O-N-I-S-E
In writingabout once in every 9 million words; the 88,353rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is demonise?

Demonise appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 88,353rd 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 demonise?

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-demonise.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of demonise

  • demonises present, singular, he/she/it
  • demonising participle, present
  • demonised participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does demonise mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    UKNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of demonize.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does demonise come from?

From demon + -ise.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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