démenti
French, noun/de.mɑ̃.ti/
démenti is spelled D-É-M-E-N-T-I (7 letters) and appears 2.9 times per million words in written French, the 16,327th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Démenti is a French masculine noun meaning “denial (claim that a rumour or other statement is not true)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of démentir. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de nier la véracité de ce que quelqu’un a affirmé”.
What does démenti mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedenial (claim that a rumour or other statement is not true)
verb
- 1
past participle of démentir
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de nier la véracité de ce que quelqu’un a affirmé. 2. Choses qui se trouvent contraires à une assertion, à une conjecture, etc. 3. Désagrément qu’on éprouve en échouant dans une entreprise, dans une tentative dont on avait le succès à cœur.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of démenti
- démentis plural
- démentie feminine
- démenties feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce démenti?
- /de.mɑ̃.ti/
- \de.mɑ̃.ti\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is démenti in French?
démenti appears 2.9 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).