démences
\de.mɑ̃s\
The verdict
“démences” is uncommon French (frequency #91,628 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,628
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de démence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-demences · démences · French
démences · rank #91,628 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,628
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH démarquée
Nearest frequency peer: démarquée (-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 « démences »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- défrichage
défrichage
8,376 corpus weight
- dégressive
dégressive
8,375 corpus weight
- démarquée
démarquée
8,374 corpus weight
- démences
démences
8,373 corpus weight
- démoralisés
démoralisés
8,372 corpus weight
- désarmante
désarmante
8,371 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « démences » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | démences |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.mɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,628 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « démences » en français
Rare enough to double-check
démences is uncommon French at frequency #91,628 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.mɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de démence.".
démences has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is démences, spelled D-É-M-E-N-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de démence.
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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