Demay
The verdict
“Demay” is uncommon French (frequency #85,626 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,626
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-demay · Demay · French
Demay · rank #85,626 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,626
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Delaplace
Nearest frequency peer: Delaplace (-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 « Demay »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dauphines
dauphines
14,382 corpus weight
- Delaplace
Delaplace
14,376 corpus weight
- Demay
Demay
14,375 corpus weight
- Derval
Derval
14,371 corpus weight
- dessaisi
dessaisi
14,369 corpus weight
- dessinera
dessinera
14,368 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Demay » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Demay |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #85,626 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Demay » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Demay is uncommon French at frequency #85,626 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Demay, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Demay, spelled D-E-M-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Demay appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Nous, ce qu’on veut, c’est que les gens qui étaient sur le carreau ne soient plus sur le carreau », lance l’actrice Florence Demay (Bianca Soubeyrand dans la série), qui porte avec d’autres anciens membres de l’équipe un projet de coopérative autour de la série.
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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