demander
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#602
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
demander is aFrenchverb. It means: Indiquer à quelqu’un par des paroles, par un écrit ou tout autre moyen ce qu’on désire obtenir de lui. Pronounced \də.mɑ̃.de\. It ranks #602 in French word frequency. Often confused with démange and demandes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | demander |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \də.mɑ̃.de\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #602 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for demander is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \də.mɑ̃.de\. Corpus data places it at rank #602 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for demander, with forms such as "ddemander", "deamnder", and "demadner". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "démange", "demandes", "demandez", 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 French form is demander, spelled D-E-M-A-N-D-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Indiquer à quelqu’un par des paroles, par un écrit ou tout autre moyen ce qu’on désire obtenir de lui.
- 2S’adresser à la justice, pour obtenir quelque chose, un droit.
- 3Demander l’aumône.
- 4Dire ou prier de donner, d’apporter, d’expédier quelque chose, d’envoyer ou d’aller chercher quelqu’un, etc.
- 5Demander en mariage.
- 6Faire savoir que l'on cherche quelque chose ou quelqu'un.
- 7Chercher quelqu’un pour le voir.
- 8Chercher à savoir, à connaître en questionnant.
- 9Exiger, avoir besoin de.
- 10(demander d'après qqn) saluer quelqu'un ou demander des nouvelles
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddemander,deamnder,demadner,demandder,demanderr,demandre,demanedr,demannder,demmander,demnader,dmeander,edmander
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for demander
Misspelling Variants of "demander"
Frequency rank: #602 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter D in our French index: