DabovsdemoTell them apart

Quick tell: Dabo is a name, demo is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Dabo” is a name and “demo” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#48,445
“Dabo” frequency rank
#32,775
“demo” frequency rank
81220
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Dabo demo
Definition Commune située dans le département de la Moselle, en France. Démo, démonstration.

Letter map: Dabo vs demo

Shared letters muted; letters that set Dabo and demo apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. Dabo and demo follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

4 ch
Dabo
4 ch
demo

Part-of-speech tell for Dabo / demo

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Dabo is aname and demoanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 81220, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Dabo is recorded at frequency rank #48,445, classified as aname. demo is at rank #32,775, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ˈdɛm.əʊ\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 81220, this pair ranks #19,232 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Dabo vs demo

Shared letters: do. Private to "Dabo": ab. Private to "demo": em.

"Dabo" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "demo" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Dabo ← adbo · dabbo · daob · dbao · ddabo
  • demo ← ddemo · demmo · deom · dmeo · edmo

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Dabo" for "demo" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Dabo" is a name and "demo" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "Dabo" or "demo"?
"demo" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #32,775 in our French list, against #48,445 for "Dabo". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "Dabo" and "demo". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Dabo" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "demo" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #19,232 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Dabo" and "demo" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Dabo vs DAF". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #19,232 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list