démultiplication

\de.myl.ti.pli.ka.sjɔ̃\

/\de.myl.ti.pli.ka.sjɔ̃\/ noun

The verdict

“démultiplication” is uncommon French (frequency #75,629 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#75,629
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de démultiplier.

Corpus desk

Index FR-demultiplication · démultiplication · French

démultiplication · rank #75,629 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #75,629
  • LEN-MEGA 16 letters
  • VOW-7 7 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH déhancher

Nearest frequency peer: déhancher (-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 « démultiplication »

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for démultiplication
PropertyValue
Headworddémultiplication
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\de.myl.ti.pli.ka.sjɔ̃\
Letters16
Frequency rank#75,629
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « démultiplication » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).démultiplicationtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « déhancher » (#75,628), « dépendons » (#75,630), « déculottée » (#75,627). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « démultiplication » est au #75,629. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

démultiplication is uncommon French at frequency #75,629 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.myl.ti.pli.ka.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No misspelling variants are generated for démultiplication in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is démultiplication, spelled D-É-M-U-L-T-I-P-L-I-C-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de démultiplier.
  2. 2
    Rapport de réduction de vitesse.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Vient enfin la phase de « déploiement stratégique » marquée par la création d’un système de franchise permettant la démultiplication de l’action et de contrer les reductio ad versaillum du groupuscule.
  2. Prenant acte de la diffusion d’une « écriture inclusive » qui prétend s’imposer comme norme, l’Académie française élève à l’unanimité une solennelle mise en garde. La démultiplication des marques orthographiques et syntaxiques qu’elle induit aboutit à une langue désunie, disparate dans son expression, créant une confusion qui confine à l’illisibilité.

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 "démultiplication"?
"démultiplication" is spelled D-É-M-U-L-T-I-P-L-I-C-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \de.myl.ti.pli.ka.sjɔ̃\.
What does "démultiplication" mean?
As a noun, "démultiplication" means: Action de démultiplier.
How do you pronounce "démultiplication"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "démultiplication" is \de.myl.ti.pli.ka.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "démultiplication" come from?
"démultiplication" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 16 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list