demoralised
"demoralised" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“demoralised” is uncommon English (frequency #77,590 among 26,416 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,590
- frequency rank, English
- 26,416
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - simple past and past participle of demoralise
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | demoralised |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #77,590 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “demoralised” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
demoralised is uncommon English at frequency #77,590 among 26,416 “D” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of demoralise".
demoralised doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is demoralised, spelled D-E-M-O-R-A-L-I-S-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of demoralise
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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-E-M-O-R-A-L-I-S-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.