démaquiller
\de.ma.ki.je\
The verdict
“démaquiller” is uncommon French (frequency #77,450 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,450
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enlever le maquillage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-demaquiller · démaquiller · French
démaquiller · rank #77,450 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,450
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déloyales
Nearest frequency peer: déloyales (-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 « démaquiller »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- décrochée
décrochée
22,555 corpus weight
- dégraissage
dégraissage
22,553 corpus weight
- déloyales
déloyales
22,552 corpus weight
- démaquiller
démaquiller
22,551 corpus weight
- démoralisant
démoralisant
22,550 corpus weight
- déménagera
déménagera
22,549 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « démaquiller » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | démaquiller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.ma.ki.je\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #77,450 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « démaquiller » en français
Rare enough to double-check
démaquiller is uncommon French at frequency #77,450 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.ma.ki.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Enlever le maquillage.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for démaquiller, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is démaquiller, spelled D-É-M-A-Q-U-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Enlever le maquillage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how démaquiller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle avait les paupières bouffies, des traînées noirâtres sous les yeux, du rouge au coin des lèvres, elle s'était certainement endormie sans s'être démaquillée.
Antonyms
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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