démettre
\de.mɛtʁ\
The verdict
“démettre” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,616. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,616
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Retirer d’un emploi, d’une charge, d’une dignité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-demettre · démettre · French
démettre · rank #49,616 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,616
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dégénérée
Nearest frequency peer: dégénérée (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « démettre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- décrédibili…
décrédibiliser
50,388 corpus weight
- dédicacer
dédicacer
50,387 corpus weight
- dégénérée
dégénérée
50,386 corpus weight
- démettre
démettre
50,385 corpus weight
- démolit
démolit
50,384 corpus weight
- démolitions
démolitions
50,383 corpus weight
What this shows « démettre » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | démettre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.mɛtʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #49,616 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « démettre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around démettre (IPA \de.mɛtʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #49,616 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for démettre, with forms such as "ddémettre", "demettre", and "dméettre". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "demeure", "démontre", "débattre", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is démettre, spelled D-É-M-E-T-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Retirer d’un emploi, d’une charge, d’une dignité.
- 2Renoncer à quelque chose.
- 3Débouter.
- 4Déplacer un os, disloquer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how démettre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Puis, à partir de mars 1974, appliquant « la tactique du salami » il commença à se débarrasser l’un après l’autre de la plupart de ses ministres parchamis, soit en les réaffectant à des postes de moindre importance, soit en les démettant carrément.
Il s’est démis de sa charge en faveur d’untel. - Dioclétien se démit de l’Empire.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddémettre
- demettre
- dméettre
- déemttre
- démetre
- démetrte
- démetter
- démettrre
- démmettre
- démtetre
- édmettre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of démettre - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).