démon

/\de.mɔ̃\/ noun

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.

Key facts for démon
PropertyValue
Headworddémon
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\de.mɔ̃\
Letters5
Frequency rank#6,814
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of démon in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Génie, esprit ou divinité, bon ou mauvais.
  2. 2
    Dans l'Ancien Testament, faux dieu, dieu païen, mauvais esprit.
  3. 3
    Un des diables, des esprits malins, par opposition aux anges, pour les chrétiens.
  4. 4
    Le Diable, Satan, prince des démons, et principe du mal.
  5. 5
    Personne méchante qui se plaît à tourmenter les autres.
  6. 6
    Enfant vif et malin.
  7. 7
    Cause de l’inspiration, des impulsions bonnes ou mauvaises.
  8. 8
    Personnification 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"

ddémon6demon5dméon5démmon6démno5démonn6déomn5édmon5
Misspelling Variants of "démon"

Frequency rank: #6,814 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "démon"?
"démon" is spelled D-É-M-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \de.mɔ̃\.
What does "démon" mean?
As a noun, "démon" means: Génie, esprit ou divinité, bon ou mauvais.
What words are commonly confused with "démon"?
"démon" is commonly confused with "don", "den", "deo". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "démon"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "démon" is \de.mɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "démon" come from?
"démon" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby French words

Other entries that begin with the letter D in our French index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.