DavosvsdémosWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#27,398
“Davos” frequency rank
#38,767
“démos” frequency rank
66165
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Davos démos
Definition Ville du canton des Grisons en Suisse. Pluriel de démo.

Letter map: Davos vs démos

Shared letters muted; letters that set Davos and démos apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. Davos and démos follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

5 ch
Davos
5 ch
démos

Grammar separator: Davos vs démos

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Davos is aname and démosanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 66165, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Davos is recorded at frequency rank #27,398, classified as aname. démos is at rank #38,767, tagged as anoun, pronounced \de.mo\.

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 66165, this pair ranks #68,996 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Davos vs démos

Shared letters: dos. Private to "Davos": av. Private to "démos": mé.

"Davos" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "démos" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Davos ← advos · daovs · davoss · davso · davvos · ddavos · dvaos

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Davos" for "démos" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Davos" is a name and "démos" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "Davos" or "démos" show up more?
"Davos" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #27,398 in our French list, against #38,767 for "démos". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pair "Davos" vs "démos" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Davos" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "démos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #68,996 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Davos" and "démos" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "DDoS vs démos". 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 #68,996 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