démérité
French, verb
démérité is a French verb meaning “past participle of démériter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, démérite is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”.
What does démérité mean in English?
verb
- 1
past participle of démériter
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ce qui peut attirer l’improbation, ce qui peut vous faire perdre la bienveillance, l’estime d’autrui.
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 démérité
- déméritée feminine
- démérités masculine plural
- déméritées feminine plural
- démérites plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to démérité
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is démérité in French?
démérité appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).