démoraliser
\de.mɔ.ʁa.li.ze\
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
- déments
déments
34,110 corpus weight
- démineur
démineur
34,109 corpus weight
- démonstrati…
démonstrative
34,108 corpus weight
- démoraliser
démoraliser
34,107 corpus weight
- dépeinte
dépeinte
34,106 corpus weight
- dérogatoires
dérogatoires
34,105 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « démoraliser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | démoraliser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.mɔ.ʁa.li.ze\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #65,894 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « démoraliser » en français
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
- 1Éloigner de la loi morale.
- 2Priver de la force morale.
- 3Faire perdre son caractère moral à.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how démoraliser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’excès du luxe démoralise l'élite d'une nation.
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.
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