démythifier
\de.mi.ti.fje\
The verdict
“démythifier” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enlever le caractère mythique de quelque chose ou de quelqu’un.
Corpus desk
Index FR-demythifier · démythifier · French
démythifier · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | démythifier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.mi.ti.fje\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
démythifier is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \de.mi.ti.fje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Enlever le caractère mythique de quelque chose ou de quelqu’un.".
No misspelling variants are generated for démythifier in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is démythifier, spelled D-É-M-Y-T-H-I-F-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Enlever le caractère mythique de quelque chose ou de quelqu’un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how démythifier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lawrence Wright, l’expert d’Al-Qaïda pour le New Yorker, démythifia l’argument de la NSA, selon lequel la collecte de métadonnées aurait pu empêcher le 11-Septembre, en expliquant que la CIA « refusa de communiquer des renseignements vitaux au FBI, qui détient l’autorité suprême pour investiguer sur le terrorisme à l’intérieur du territoire des États-Unis…
Démythifier, déconfidentialiser, dédramatiser l’écriture.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.