démembrer
\de.mɑ̃.bʁe\
The verdict
“démembrer” is uncommon French (frequency #64,400 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,400
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mutiler en arrachant les membres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-demembrer · démembrer · French
démembrer · rank #64,400 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,400
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH démasqués
Nearest frequency peer: démasqués (-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 « démembrer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- démagogiques
démagogiques
35,604 corpus weight
- démantelés
démantelés
35,603 corpus weight
- démasqués
démasqués
35,602 corpus weight
- démembrer
démembrer
35,601 corpus weight
- démenties
démenties
35,600 corpus weight
- déménageur
déménageur
35,598 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « démembrer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | démembrer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.mɑ̃.bʁe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,400 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « démembrer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
démembrer is uncommon French at frequency #64,400 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.mɑ̃.bʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for démembrer in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 démembrer, spelled D-É-M-E-M-B-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mutiler en arrachant les membres.
- 2Diminuer un tout d’une ou plusieurs de ses parties.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how démembrer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
M. Khashoggi, qui vivait aux États-Unis, était un critique fréquent du régime saoudien. Il a été battu à mort et démembré, et des parties de son corps ont été dissoutes dans l'acide.
Les bacchantes déchirèrent et démembrèrent Penthée.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).