démente
\de.mɑ̃t\
The verdict
“démente” is uncommon French (frequency #54,537 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,537
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de dément.
Corpus desk
Index FR-demente · démente · French
démente · rank #54,537 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,537
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH démarrez
Nearest frequency peer: démarrez (-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 « démente »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Dunois
Dunois
45,468 corpus weight
- décolletés
décolletés
45,467 corpus weight
- dédiabolisa…
dédiabolisation
45,466 corpus weight
- démarrez
démarrez
45,465 corpus weight
- démente
démente
45,464 corpus weight
- dénuées
dénuées
45,461 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « démente » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | démente |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.mɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,537 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « démente » en français
Rare enough to double-check
démente is uncommon French at frequency #54,537 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \de.mɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de dément.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for démente, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is démente, spelled D-É-M-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de dément.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how démente appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur chaque bouffée d’aurore Sur mer sur bateaux Sur montagne démente J'écris ton nom…
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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