démon
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,814
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
démon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Génie, esprit ou divinité, bon ou mauvais. Pronounced \de.mɔ̃\. It ranks #6,814 in French word frequency. Often confused with don and den.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | démon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.mɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,814 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for démon is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.mɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,814 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for démon, with forms such as "ddémon", "demon", and "dméon". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "don", "den", "deo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is démon, spelled D-É-M-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Génie, esprit ou divinité, bon ou mauvais.
- 2Dans l'Ancien Testament, faux dieu, dieu païen, mauvais esprit.
- 3Un des diables, des esprits malins, par opposition aux anges, pour les chrétiens.
- 4Le Diable, Satan, prince des démons, et principe du mal.
- 5Personne méchante qui se plaît à tourmenter les autres.
- 6Enfant vif et malin.
- 7Cause de l’inspiration, des impulsions bonnes ou mauvaises.
- 8Personnification des idées noires, angoissantes, qui troublent une personne et peuvent l’inciter à des actions néfastes.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddémon,demon,dméon,démmon,démno,démonn,déomn,édmon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for démon
Misspelling Variants of "démon"
Frequency rank: #6,814 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter D in our French index: