demeurer

\də.mœ.ʁe\

/\də.mœ.ʁe\/ verb

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The verdict

“demeurer” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,483. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,483
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
12
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - S’arrêter assez longtemps en un lieu. — Note d’usage : Conjugué avec l’auxiliaire être.

Corpus desk

Index FR-demeurer · demeurer · French

demeurer · rank #10,483 · 10 variants · 12 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,483
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH daily

Nearest frequency peer: daily (-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 « demeurer »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « demeurer » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

demeurer vs demeures
88% similar
demeurer vs déterrer
63% similar
demeurer vs demeurera
89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for demeurer
PropertyValue
Headworddemeurer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\də.mœ.ʁe\
Letters8
Frequency rank#10,483
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « demeurer »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.demeurerse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « daily » (#10,482), « descendu » (#10,484), « cylindres » (#10,481). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « demeurer » est au #10,483. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around demeurer (IPA \də.mœ.ʁe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,483 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for demeurer, with forms such as "ddemeurer", "deemurer", and "demeruer". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "demeures", "déterrer", "demeurera", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored 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 demeurer, spelled D-E-M-E-U-R-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    S’arrêter assez longtemps en un lieu. — Note d’usage : Conjugué avec l’auxiliaire être.
  2. 2
    Habiter, loger, faire son logement. — Note d’usage : Conjugué avec l’auxiliaire avoir.
  3. 3
    Être à demeure, être permanent ou tenir, persister, durer.
  4. 4
    Se trouver, rester ou être dans un certain état.
  5. 5
    Ce qui est conservé, laissé ou dévolu à quelqu’un.
  6. 6
    Être de reste.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how demeurer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Eh quoi ! vous voilà déjà en route ? Isaac Laquedem, « qui souffre à demeurer », s’arrête au moins pour boire la chope de bière que lui offrent les bourgeois de Bruxelles en Brabant !
  2. En les apercevant, Bert s’aplatit sur le sol, rampa jusqu’à un creux propice et demeura étendu là à contempler leurs efforts.

Synonyms

rester

This word in other languages

abide(English)quedarse(Español)bleiben(Deutsch)permanecer(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddemeurer
  • deemurer
  • demeruer
  • demeuerr
  • demeurerr
  • demeurrer
  • demmeurer
  • demuerer
  • dmeeurer
  • edmeurer

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of demeurer - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ddemeurer1deemurer2demeruer2demeuerr2demeurerr1demeurrer1demmeurer1demuerer2
Edit distance from "demeurer"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "demeurer"?
"demeurer" is spelled D-E-M-E-U-R-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \də.mœ.ʁe\.
What does "demeurer" mean?
As a verb, "demeurer" means: S’arrêter assez longtemps en un lieu. — Note d’usage : Conjugué avec l’auxiliaire être.
What words are commonly confused with "demeurer"?
"demeurer" is commonly confused with "demeures", "déterrer", "demeurera". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "demeurer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "demeurer" is \də.mœ.ʁe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "demeurer" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "demeurer", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

descendu#10,484craintes#10,479contours#10,476enfoncer#10,496

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

cliquer10 variantsastuces10 variantsaiguilles10 variantsadverse10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list