démonter
\de.mɔ̃.te\
The verdict
“démonter” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #13,365 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #13,365
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Arrêter le mouvement d’un mécanisme, qui a ensuite besoin d’être remonté.
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 | démonter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.mɔ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,365 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “démonter” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for démonter is 8 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.mɔ̃.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,365 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for démonter, with forms such as "ddémonter", "demonter", and "dméonter". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "dénoncer", "démontre", "déporter", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is démonter, spelled D-É-M-O-N-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Arrêter le mouvement d’un mécanisme, qui a ensuite besoin d’être remonté.
- 2Perdre le contrôle.
- 3Défaire pièce par pièce ce qui formait un tout.
- 4Détraquer, mettre hors d’usage.
- 5Déconcerter, mettre hors d’état d’agir, de répondre.
- 6Se dit d’une personne qui perd son sang-froid, sa présence d’esprit, qui n’est plus maîtresse d’elle-même.
- 7Faire preuve de mouvements désordonnés, bouleversés.
- 8Jeter, en parlant du cheval, un cavalier à terre.
- 9Faire descendre, forcer à descendre de cheval.
- 10Il se dit particulièrement des troupes à cheval auxquelles on fait faire le service à pied dans quelque occasion extraordinaire.
- 11Ôter le commandement, rétrograder.
- 12Posséder, prendre sexuellement.
- 13Être dans le mal, avoir bu trop d’alcool ou consommé de drogue.
- 14Action de supprimer l’accès à un système de fichiers.
- 15Abattre avec une arme.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddémonter,demonter,dméonter,démmonter,démnoter,démonetr,démonnter,démontter,démotner,déomnter,édmonter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of démonter - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “démonter”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-É-M-O-N-T-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \de.mɔ̃.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “dénoncer” - see the side-by-side comparison. démonter vs dénoncer
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.