demandai
\də.mɑ̃.de\
The verdict
“demandai” is uncommon French (frequency #53,261 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,261
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du passé simple de demander.
Corpus desk
Index FR-demandai · demandai · French
demandai · rank #53,261 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,261
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Delft
Nearest frequency peer: Delft (-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 « demandai »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- default
default
46,742 corpus weight
- Delft
Delft
46,741 corpus weight
- demandai
demandai
46,740 corpus weight
- dessinatrice
dessinatrice
46,739 corpus weight
- deva
deva
46,738 corpus weight
- diabolisati…
diabolisation
46,737 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « demandai » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | demandai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \də.mɑ̃.de\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,261 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « demandai » en français
Rare enough to double-check
demandai is uncommon French at frequency #53,261 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \də.mɑ̃.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Première personne du singulier du passé simple de demander.".
demandai doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is demandai, spelled D-E-M-A-N-D-A-I.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du passé simple de demander.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how demandai appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je la rassurai et lui demandai ce qui manquait.
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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