démodé

Name: démodé, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\de.mɔ.de\

/\de.mɔ.de\/ adj

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“démodé” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,998. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#34,998
frequency rank, French: 5,307
“D” headwords: 9
tracked misspellings: 20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a cessé d’être à la mode.

Corpus desk

Index FR-demode · démodé · French

démodé · rank #34,998 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

FREQ-MID #34,998
LEN-LONG 6 letters
VOW-3 3 vowels
CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
VAR-MID 9 variants
BOOK-DENSE 5,307
PHOTO-FINISH démentie

Nearest frequency peer: démentie (-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.

décédées

65,006
démentie

65,004
démodé

65,003
démolie

65,002
dépeindre

65,001
déplaçait

65,000

What this shows « démodé » 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).

démodé vs démon

67% similar

démodé vs démos

67% similar

démodé vs diode

50% similar

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

Key facts for démodé
Property	Value
Headword	démodé
Language	French
Part of speech	Adjective
IPA	\de.mɔ.de\
Letters	6
Frequency rank	#34,998
Misspellings tracked	9
Confusable pairs	20
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « démodé »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).démodése place ici:

#34,998

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « démentie » (#34,997), « démolie » (#34,999), « dépeindre » (#35,000). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « démodé » est au #34,998. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around démodé (IPA \de.mɔ.de\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #34,998 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui a cessé d’être à la mode.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for démodé, with forms such as "ddémodé", "demode", and "dméodé". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "démon", "démos", "diode", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is démodé, spelled D-É-M-O-D-É.

Definition

1
Qui a cessé d’être à la mode.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

Un nom désuet, démodé, Aymar, Gaëtan. Quelque chose comme ça.
À l’obsolescence technique s’adjoint donc une obsolescence psychologique : un téléphone de deux ans est ringard, un vêtement de six mois est démodé, un écran plat est déjà bien triste face à une télévision 3D.

Synonyms

passé de mode suranné rétro vieillot

This word in other languages

old-fashioned(English)pasado de moda(Español)altmodisch(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

ddémodé
demode
dméodé
démdoé
démmodé
démoddé
démoéd
déomdé
édmodé

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of démodé - 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.

Edit distance from "démodé"

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 "démodé"?

"démodé" is spelled D-É-M-O-D-É. The IPA pronunciation is \de.mɔ.de\.

What does "démodé" mean?

As an adjective, "démodé" means: Qui a cessé d’être à la mode.

What words are commonly confused with "démodé"?

"démodé" is commonly confused with "démon", "démos", "diode". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "démodé"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "démodé" is \de.mɔ.de\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "démodé" come from?

"démodé" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

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