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Definitions: DEMENT |
DEMENTAdjective1. Demented; dementate. Transitive verb1. To deprive of reason; to make mad. |
Crosswords: DEMENT |
| English words defined with "DEMENT": Dementate. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "DEMENT": Demency, demented, Dementia. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "DEMENT" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (crazy, demented, insane, mad, madman, raving). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "DEMENT" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DEMENT" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "DEMENT" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Dement | Last name | 2,000 | 7,218 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
iris dement | 117 |
dement | 16 |
william dement | 5 |
dement iris lyrics | 4 |
brown dement greg iris | 2 |
dement janelle tamara | 2 |
dement askew gammon dement | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DEMENT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | prish mendjen, çmend (derange, distract, drive smb. mad, madden). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | подлудявам (become insane, craze, distract, drive crazy, drive mad, drive smb. nuts, go crazy, go mad, loco, mad, madden, make wild). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | stát se dementním. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megbolondít (to dement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ementday dementar, enlouquecer (craze, derange, go off, mad, madden, run amok, run amuck, run mad). (various references) сводить с ума (derange, madden). (various references) hacer loco. (various references) deli (Batty, bedlamite, bonkers, crackers, cracky, crazy, daft, delirious, demented, demon, demoniac, demoniacal, dippy, distracted, distraught, gaga, insane, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, mad about, madman, madwoman, meshuggah, not all there, nutcase, nuts, nutty, off one's onion, out of one's mind, out of one's senses, phrenetic, possessed, potty, touched). (various references) з'їхати з глузду (be off one's onion, craze, go crazy, go mad, lose one's reason, madden, run mad), зводити з розуму (craze, madden), збожеволіти (crack, go mad, lose one's senses, run mad), здуріти (be out of one's wits, crack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DEMENT": demented, dementedly, dementedness, dementednesses, dementia, demential, dementias, dementing, dements. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "DEMENT": bodement, debridement, denudement. (additional references) | |
Words containing "DEMENT": bodements, debridements, denudements. (additional references) | |
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"DEMENT" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: damet, dansent, debent, dedent, deent, Demanet, demant, demeen, demen, Demeny, demet, demin, Demner, Dennet, dentent, desent, Desmet, devent, dimen, diment, dinant, doment, Domett, donent, edmen, Edmont, Edmunt, emment, emnet, sement. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DEMENT" (pronounced dume"nt) |
| 5 | -u m e" n t | cement, lament. |
| 4 | -m e" n t | augment, ferment, meant. |
| 3 | -e" n t | accent, ascent, assent, bent, Brent, cent, circumvent, consent, Dent, descent, discontent, dissent, event, extent, gent, indent, intent, invent, Kent, lent, malcontent, misrepresent, misspent, nonevent, occident, outspent, overspent, pent, percent, prevent, reinvent, relent, rent, repent, represent, resent, scent, sent, spent, tent, underwent, unspent, vent, went. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-m-n-t" | |
-1 letter: emend, meted. | |
-2 letters: deem, deet, deme, dene, dent, meed, meet, mend, mete, need, neem, teed, teem, teen, tend. | |
-3 letters: dee, den, eme, end, med, men, met, nee, net, ted, tee, ten. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, em, en, et, me, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-m-n-t" | |
+1 letter: dements, demeton. | |
+2 letters: anthemed, bodement, cemented, demented, dementia, demetons, emanated, emendate, entoderm, entombed, fomented, lamented, mentored, nematode, pediment, reminted, sediment, unmelted, weldment. | |
+3 letters: alimented, amendment, amnestied, augmented, benempted, bodements, commented, contemned, damnedest, deaminate, deathsmen, debarment, decrement, decumbent, deferment, demential, dementias, dementing, demounted, demulcent, determent, determine, detriment, devilment, embedment, emendated, emendates, endosteum, endotherm, endowment, entoderms, fermented, garmented, geminated, impendent, judgement, lodgement, margented, mentioned, methadone, mistended, modernest, moistened, monetised, monetized, nematodes, netminder, numerated, pediments, pigmented, remounted, sediments, segmented, smartened, tormented, tradesmen, unmerited, unmitered, weldments. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 45 4D 45 4E 54 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . -- . -. - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01000101 01001101 01000101 01001110 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D E M E N T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0045 004D 0045 004E 0054 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)383947394854 |
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