demeurèrent
\də.mœ.ʁɛʁ\
The verdict
“demeurèrent” is uncommon French (frequency #68,973 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,973
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de demeurer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-demeurerent · demeurèrent · French
demeurèrent · rank #68,973 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,973
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH deman
Nearest frequency peer: deman (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « demeurèrent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Darnell
Darnell
31,033 corpus weight
- daughter
daughter
31,031 corpus weight
- deman
deman
31,029 corpus weight
- demeurèrent
demeurèrent
31,028 corpus weight
- derechef
derechef
31,026 corpus weight
- Derry
Derry
31,024 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « demeurèrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | demeurèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \də.mœ.ʁɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #68,973 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « demeurèrent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
demeurèrent is uncommon French at frequency #68,973 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \də.mœ.ʁɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de demeurer.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for demeurèrent in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is demeurèrent, spelled D-E-M-E-U-R-È-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de demeurer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how demeurèrent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y eut quelques secondes durant lesquelles leurs deux forces s'annulant ils demeurèrent ainsi, immobiles et tendus.
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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