démotiver
\de.mɔ.ti.ve\
The verdict
“démotiver” is uncommon French (frequency #84,731 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,731
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire perdre sa motivation à.
Corpus desk
Index FR-demotiver · démotiver · French
démotiver · rank #84,731 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,731
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH démographique…
Nearest frequency peer: démographiquement (-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 « démotiver »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- délateurs
délateurs
15,273 corpus weight
- démentielle
démentielle
15,272 corpus weight
- démographiq…
démographiquement
15,271 corpus weight
- démotiver
démotiver
15,270 corpus weight
- dépensière
dépensière
15,269 corpus weight
- dépeuplement
dépeuplement
15,268 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « démotiver » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | démotiver |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.mɔ.ti.ve\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « démotiver » en français
Rare enough to double-check
démotiver is uncommon French at frequency #84,731 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.mɔ.ti.ve\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Faire perdre sa motivation à.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for démotiver, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 démotiver, spelled D-É-M-O-T-I-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire perdre sa motivation à.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how démotiver appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le travail à distance démotive, l’isolement déprime.
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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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