démystifier
\de.mis.ti.fje\
The verdict
“démystifier” is uncommon French (frequency #55,908 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,908
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Détromper quelqu'un dont on abuse de la crédulité ou de la naïveté, inverse de mystifier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-demystifier · démystifier · French
démystifier · rank #55,908 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,908
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH démontable
Nearest frequency peer: démontable (-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 « démystifier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- démesurément
démesurément
44,095 corpus weight
- démontable
démontable
44,094 corpus weight
- démystifier
démystifier
44,093 corpus weight
- dénombrait
dénombrait
44,092 corpus weight
- dénombrés
dénombrés
44,091 corpus weight
- déplorait
déplorait
44,090 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « démystifier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | démystifier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.mis.ti.fje\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #55,908 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « démystifier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
démystifier is uncommon French at frequency #55,908 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.mis.ti.fje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for démystifier in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is démystifier, spelled D-É-M-Y-S-T-I-F-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Détromper quelqu'un dont on abuse de la crédulité ou de la naïveté, inverse de mystifier.
- 2Priver quelqu'un ou quelque chose de son aspect mythique, mystérieux, en dénoncer les idées reçues pour montrer leur fausseté, paronyme de démythifier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how démystifier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il ne faut donc pas compter unilatéralement sur l'illusion du peuple. Entre le peuple et les habiles, il y a les demi-habiles qui sont experts dans l'art de démystifier le peuple.
SOS Doudou : dédramatiser l'hôpital, démystifier la blouse blanche — (La Voix du Nord, 30 novembre 2016)
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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