demore
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#42,940
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
demore is aSpanishverb. It means: Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de subjuntivo de demorar o de demorarse. Pronounced [d̪eˈmoɾe]. Often confused with demos and depre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | demore |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪eˈmoɾe] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #42,940 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for demore is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪eˈmoɾe]. Corpus data places it at rank #42,940 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for demore, with forms such as "ddemore", "demmore", and "demoer". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "demos", "depre", "devora", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is demore, spelled D-E-M-O-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de subjuntivo de demorar o de demorarse.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de demorar o de demorarse.
- 3Segunda persona del singular (usted) del imperativo de demorar o del imperativo negativo de demorarse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddemore,demmore,demoer,demorre,demroe,deomre,dmeore,edmore
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for demore
Misspelling Variants of "demore"
Frequency rank: #42,940 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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