dem
The verdict
“dem” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,107) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,107
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - démonstration d’un produit pour en faire la promotion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dem · dem · French
dem · rank #16,107 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,107
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH curie
Nearest frequency peer: curie (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « dem »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- corp
corp
83,897 corpus weight
- Cristina
Cristina
83,896 corpus weight
- curie
curie
83,895 corpus weight
- dem
dem
83,894 corpus weight
- descendance
descendance
83,893 corpus weight
- discernement
discernement
83,892 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « dem » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dem |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #16,107 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « dem »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dem is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "dr", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #16,107 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "démonstration d’un produit pour en faire la promotion.".
Zero misspellings are on record for dem in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "dr", "di", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is dem, spelled D-E-M.
Definition
- 1démonstration d’un produit pour en faire la promotion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dem appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour réussir à entréper dans de telles proportions, il faut que la démonstration soit attrayante et, nous le verrons dans les sections suivantes, les démonstrateurs ne manquent pas d’énergie pour faire de leur dem (démonstration) un véritable spectacle. […] Commentant la dem qu’il venait de faire, un exposant de produits ménagers biologiques m’expliquait…
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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