démodée
\de.mɔ.de\
The verdict
“démodée” is uncommon French (frequency #70,572 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,572
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de démodé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-demodee · démodée · French
démodée · rank #70,572 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,572
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH démener
Nearest frequency peer: démener (-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 « démodée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- délaissement
délaissement
29,432 corpus weight
- délite
délite
29,431 corpus weight
- démener
démener
29,430 corpus weight
- démodée
démodée
29,429 corpus weight
- démord
démord
29,428 corpus weight
- déménagez
déménagez
29,427 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « démodée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | démodée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.mɔ.de\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,572 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « démodée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
démodée is uncommon French at frequency #70,572 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \de.mɔ.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de démodé.".
démodée has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 démodée, spelled D-É-M-O-D-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de 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.
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