démerdard
\de.mɛʁ.daʁ\
The verdict
“démerdard” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se démerde bien, qui sait résoudre les difficultés ; débrouillard.
Corpus desk
Index FR-demerdard · démerdard · French
démerdard · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | démerdard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.mɛʁ.daʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
démerdard is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \de.mɛʁ.daʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui se démerde bien, qui sait résoudre les difficultés ; débrouillard.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for démerdard, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is démerdard, spelled D-É-M-E-R-D-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Qui se démerde bien, qui sait résoudre les difficultés ; débrouillard.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how démerdard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je sais l’endroit et je te montrerai quelque chose de joli ; tu te rendras compte si, en fait de démerdard, on est soigné à la Marsiale.
— Je ne les aurais jamais crus si démerdards, ces gars-là ! Ah ! ils savent y faire !…
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.