démoniaque
\de.mɔ.njak\
The verdict
“démoniaque” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,845. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,845
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est possédé ou semble possédé du démon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-demoniaque · démoniaque · French
démoniaque · rank #23,845 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #23,845
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH définitifs
Nearest frequency peer: définitifs (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « démoniaque »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- décidant
décidant
76,159 corpus weight
- déconseille
déconseille
76,158 corpus weight
- définitifs
définitifs
76,157 corpus weight
- démoniaque
démoniaque
76,156 corpus weight
- dénommée
dénommée
76,155 corpus weight
- dépensent
dépensent
76,154 corpus weight
What this shows « démoniaque » 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).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | démoniaque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.mɔ.njak\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #23,845 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « démoniaque »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around démoniaque (IPA \de.mɔ.njak\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #23,845 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for démoniaque, with forms such as "ddémoniaque", "demoniaque", and "dméoniaque". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "démoniaques", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is démoniaque, spelled D-É-M-O-N-I-A-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est possédé ou semble possédé du démon.
- 2Se dit d’un système non-déterministe qui trouvera le moyen, s’il existe, d’échouer, de ne pas atteindre l’état final désiré.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how démoniaque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une femme démoniaque.
L’étranger abaissa les yeux sur ses grands pieds auxquels des sandales de cuir brut au bout pointu et recourbé donnaient un aspect démoniaque.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddémoniaque
- demoniaque
- dméoniaque
- démmoniaque
- démnoiaque
- démoinaque
- démonaique
- démoniaqeu
- démoniaqque
- démoniauqe
- démoniqaue
- démonniaque
- déomniaque
- édmoniaque
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of démoniaque - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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