démoniser
French, verb/de.mɔ.ni.ze/
démoniser is spelled D-É-M-O-N-I-S-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written French, the 161,134th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Démoniser is a French verb meaning “to demonize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Diaboliser”.
What does démoniser mean in English?
verb
- 1
proscribedto demonize
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Diaboliser.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of démoniser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- démonisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- démonisé participle past
- démonise first-person indicative present
- démonises indicative present second-person
- démonisons first-person indicative plural
- démonisez indicative plural present
- démonisent indicative plural present
- démonisais first-person imperfect indicative
- démonisait imperfect indicative singular
- démonisions first-person imperfect indicative
- démonisiez imperfect indicative plural
- démonisaient imperfect indicative plural
- démonisai first-person historic indicative
- démonisas historic indicative past
- démonisa historic indicative past
- démonisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce démoniser?
- /de.mɔ.ni.ze/
- \de.mɔ.ni.ze\
- [de.mɔ.ni.ze]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to démoniser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is démoniser in French?
démoniser appears about once in every 25 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).