démontant

\de.mɔ̃.tɑ̃\

/\de.mɔ̃.tɑ̃\/ adj

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The verdict

“démontant” is uncommon French (frequency #86,646 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#86,646
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui étonne, qui déconcerte.

Corpus desk

Index FR-demontant · démontant · French

démontant · rank #86,646 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #86,646
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH déjouant

Nearest frequency peer: déjouant (-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 « démontant »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « démontant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for démontant
PropertyValue
Headworddémontant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\de.mɔ̃.tɑ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#86,646
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « démontant » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).démontanttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « déjouant » (#86,645), « démontrerait » (#86,647), « déjeunait » (#86,644). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « démontant » est au #86,646. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

démontant is uncommon French at frequency #86,646 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \de.mɔ̃.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui étonne, qui déconcerte.".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for démontant, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is démontant, spelled D-É-M-O-N-T-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui étonne, qui déconcerte.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how démontant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Et pourtant, je crois bien qu’il me serait impossible désormais de sentir aussi fortement quoi que ce soit ou de rencontrer un objet qui dégageât — pour moi seul, peut-être — une aussi démontante horreur.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "démontant"?
"démontant" is spelled D-É-M-O-N-T-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \de.mɔ̃.tɑ̃\.
What does "démontant" mean?
As an adjective, "démontant" means: Qui étonne, qui déconcerte.
How do you pronounce "démontant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "démontant" is \de.mɔ̃.tɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "démontant", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

déjeunait#86,644découlera#86,641décomptés#86,640dérangées#86,652

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list