démonter
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,365
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
démonter is aFrenchverb. It means: Arrêter le mouvement d’un mécanisme, qui a ensuite besoin d’être remonté. Pronounced \de.mɔ̃.te\. Often confused with dénoncer and démontre.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for démonter is 8 letters long, classified as averb, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for démonter, with forms such as "ddémonter", "demonter", and "dméonter". 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 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, 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 démonter, spelled D-É-M-O-N-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for démonter
Misspelling Variants of "démonter"
Frequency rank: #13,365 in French
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Nearby French words
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