dément
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,364
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
dément is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est dans l’état de démence. Pronounced \de.mɑ̃\. Often confused with dent and démon.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dément |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \de.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,364 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dément is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,364 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for dément, with forms such as "ddément", "dement", and "dméent". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dent", "démon", "devant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is dément, spelled D-É-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est dans l’état de démence.
- 2Qui défie la raison ; incroyable.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddément,dement,dméent,déemnt,démennt,démentt,démetn,démment,démnet,édment
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "dément"
Frequency rank: #13,364 in French
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