démarrer
\de.ma.ʁe\
The verdict
“démarrer” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,954. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,954
- frequency rank, French
- 404,891
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Quitter le port en parlant d’un bâtiment.
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 | démarrer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.ma.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,954 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “démarrer” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around démarrer (IPA \de.ma.ʁe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,954 among 404,891 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for démarrer, with forms such as "ddémarrer", "demarrer", and "dméarrer". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "demeurer", "désarmer", "déterrer", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is démarrer, spelled D-É-M-A-R-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Quitter le port en parlant d’un bâtiment.
- 2Se mettre en marche ou en mouvement, surtout en parlant d’un véhicule.
- 3Quitter une place, en parlant de personnes. On l’emploie surtout avec la négation.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddémarrer
- demarrer
- dméarrer
- déamrrer
- démarerr
- démarrerr
- démarrre
- démmarrer
- démrarer
- édmarrer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of démarrer - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “démarrer”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-É-M-A-R-R-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \de.ma.ʁe\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “demeurer” - see the side-by-side comparison. démarrer vs demeurer
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.