daemon
\de.mɔ̃\
The verdict
“daemon” is uncommon French (frequency #74,696 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,696
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Programme actif en permanence dans un système multitâche, qui effectue certaines fonctions sans l’intervention de l’utilisateur..
Corpus desk
Index FR-daemon · daemon · French
daemon · rank #74,696 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,696
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH céderait
Nearest frequency peer: céderait (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « daemon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cypher
cypher
25,308 corpus weight
- câblés
câblés
25,307 corpus weight
- céderait
céderait
25,306 corpus weight
- daemon
daemon
25,305 corpus weight
- Darlington
Darlington
25,303 corpus weight
- DCC
DCC
25,302 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « daemon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | daemon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.mɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,696 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « daemon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
daemon is uncommon French at frequency #74,696 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.mɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Programme actif en permanence dans un système multitâche, qui effectue certaines fonctions sans l’intervention de l’utilisateur..".
daemon has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is daemon, spelled D-A-E-M-O-N.
Definition
- 1Programme actif en permanence dans un système multitâche, qui effectue certaines fonctions sans l’intervention de l’utilisateur..
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how daemon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les principales modifications apportées à OpenWrt ont consisté à développer un daemon qui permet d’assurer la communication entre OverTheBox et les infrastructures d’OVH, dès sa première connexion à Internet.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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