démoraliser

\de.mɔ.ʁa.li.ze\

/\de.mɔ.ʁa.li.ze\/ verb

The verdict

“démoraliser” is uncommon French (frequency #65,894 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#65,894
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Éloigner de la loi morale.

Corpus desk

Index FR-demoraliser · démoraliser · French

démoraliser · rank #65,894 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #65,894
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH démonstrative

Nearest frequency peer: démonstrative (-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 « démoraliser »

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 « démoraliser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for démoraliser
PropertyValue
Headworddémoraliser
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\de.mɔ.ʁa.li.ze\
Letters11
Frequency rank#65,894
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « démoraliser » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).démoralisertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « démonstrative » (#65,893), « dépeinte » (#65,895), « démineur » (#65,892). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « démoraliser » est au #65,894. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

démoraliser is uncommon French at frequency #65,894 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.mɔ.ʁa.li.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for démoraliser in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 démoraliser, spelled D-É-M-O-R-A-L-I-S-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Éloigner de la loi morale.
  2. 2
    Priver de la force morale.
  3. 3
    Faire perdre son caractère moral à.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. L’excès du luxe démoralise l'élite d'une nation.
  2. Il s'agissait de conférences et de parlottes défaitistes, au cours desquelles il était donné lecture de fragments de séances parlementaires en comité secret, considérés comme aptes à démoraliser les auditeurs, et aussi de tracts et de brochures progermaniques.

This word in other languages

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 "démoraliser"?
"démoraliser" is spelled D-É-M-O-R-A-L-I-S-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \de.mɔ.ʁa.li.ze\.
What does "démoraliser" mean?
As a verb, "démoraliser" means: Éloigner de la loi morale.
How do you pronounce "démoraliser"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "démoraliser" is \de.mɔ.ʁa.li.ze\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "démoraliser" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list