demeuraient
\də.mœ.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“demeuraient” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,275. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,275
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de demeurer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-demeuraient · demeuraient · French
demeuraient · rank #42,275 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,275
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH degli
Nearest frequency peer: degli (-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 « demeuraient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dahlia
dahlia
57,730 corpus weight
- Dampierre
Dampierre
57,729 corpus weight
- degli
degli
57,727 corpus weight
- demeuraient
demeuraient
57,726 corpus weight
- deng
deng
57,724 corpus weight
- destroyer
destroyer
57,723 corpus weight
What this shows « demeuraient » 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 | demeuraient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \də.mœ.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #42,275 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « demeuraient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around demeuraient (IPA \də.mœ.ʁɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #42,275 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de demeurer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for demeuraient, with forms such as "ddemeuraient", "deemuraient", and "demeruaient". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "demeurent", "demeurant", "demeurait", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is demeuraient, spelled D-E-M-E-U-R-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de demeurer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how demeuraient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les cerises printanières gardaient leur fermeté et leur bel éclat ponceau, les salades ne se tavelaient pas, les gigots pendus aux crochets d’acier demeuraient élastiques, saignants, consommables.
De bonnes dents, et bien qu’il fût extrêmement ridé, ses yeux demeuraient puissants, sans taies ni croûtes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddemeuraient
- deemuraient
- demeruaient
- demeuarient
- demeuraeint
- demeuraiennt
- demeuraientt
- demeuraietn
- demeurainet
- demeuriaent
- demeurraient
- demmeuraient
- demueraient
- dmeeuraient
- edmeuraient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of demeuraient - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).