démise
\de.miz\
The verdict
“démise” is uncommon French (frequency #95,836 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,836
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vieux vêtement mis au rebut.
Corpus desk
Index FR-demise · démise · French
démise · rank #95,836 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,836
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dénichée
Nearest frequency peer: dénichée (+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 « démise »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- défigurés
défigurés
4,168 corpus weight
- délayer
délayer
4,167 corpus weight
- démise
démise
4,165 corpus weight
- dénichée
dénichée
4,164 corpus weight
- déplaisants
déplaisants
4,163 corpus weight
- déroulez
déroulez
4,162 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « démise » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | démise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.miz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #95,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « démise » en français
Rare enough to double-check
démise is uncommon French at frequency #95,836 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.miz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for démise, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is démise, spelled D-É-M-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Vieux vêtement mis au rebut.
- 2Vieillerie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how démise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le moine de Montaudon raille Adémar d'avoir accepté de vieilles démises.
… ces habits neufs dont elle se requinque sont de vieilles nippes, que ses productions sont des démises, que ses œuvres originales sont des oripeaux à pièces.
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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