Deemed

How to spell deemed

6 letters · 1 syllable

142 of the 916 people asked to spell deemed in Spelling Garden got it wrong the first time.

The most common mistake is deamed. The letters people get wrong are highlighted.

deamed deemed

What people typed instead

• deamed35 people
• deaned8 people
• deen3 people
• demed3 people

How to pronounce deemed

What does deemed mean?

1. verbRegarded or judged something to be a particular way, as a matter of considered opinion.

Deemed in a sentence

• The committee deemed the proposal too expensive to pursue.

• The bridge was deemed unsafe and closed to traffic.

Where does deemed come from?

Language of origin: Germanic

This word descends from the Old English verb deman, meaning 'to judge, to pronounce a verdict, or to form an opinion'. That verb was built on the noun dom, meaning 'judgement' or 'decree', the same ancient root that survives in the modern word 'doom' and in the suffix '-dom' found in 'kingdom' and 'freedom'. In Anglo-Saxon England a 'deemster' was literally a judge, a title that lingered for centuries in the Isle of Man as 'deemster'. Over time the sense softened from delivering a formal legal ruling to simply considering or regarding something as true, so that today we speak of a request being deemed acceptable. The spelling keeps the long double 'e' from the Old English vowel, and the past form simply adds '-ed', giving the tidy 'deemed' that catches few people out.

How the word is built

• deem (from Old English deman: to judge, pronounce)
• -ed (past tense/participle suffix)

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