Demokratie
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,506
in German word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
Demokratie is aGermannoun. It means: Volksherrschaft; politisches Prinzip, nach dem das Volk durch freie Wahlen, andere Abstimmungen oder losbestimmte Vertreter an der Machtausübung im Staat teilhat Pronounced [demokʁaˈtiː]. It ranks #1,506 in German word frequency. Often confused with Demokratien and Demokrat.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Demokratie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [demokʁaˈtiː] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #1,506 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Demokratie is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [demokʁaˈtiː]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,506 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for Demokratie, with forms such as "ddemokratie", "demkoratie", and "demmokratie". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Demokratien", "Demokrat", "Demokraten", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Demokratie, spelled D-E-M-O-K-R-A-T-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Volksherrschaft; politisches Prinzip, nach dem das Volk durch freie Wahlen, andere Abstimmungen oder losbestimmte Vertreter an der Machtausübung im Staat teilhat
- 2Regierungssystem, das das in [1] beschriebene Prinzip verwirklicht
- 3Staat, dessen Regierungssystem das Prinzip [1] verwirklicht
- 4auf andere gesellschaftliche oder politische Ebenen übertragene Bedeutung [1] (ohne Plural) Prinzip der freien und gleichberechtigten Willensbildung und Mitbestimmung in unter- oder überstaatlichen Gruppen oder Organisationen durch deren Angehörige
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddemokratie,demkoratie,demmokratie,demokartie,demokkratie,demokraite,demokratei,demokrattie,demokrratie,demokrtaie,demorkatie,deomkratie,dmeokratie,edmokratie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Demokratie
Misspelling Variants of "Demokratie"
Frequency rank: #1,506 in German
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