democratic
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "democratic", 10-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "democratic" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "democratic" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
democratic is anEnglishadj. It means: Pertaining to democracy; constructed upon or in line with the principle of government chosen by the people. Pronounced /ˌdɛm.əˈkɹæt.ɪk/. It ranks #1,893 in English word frequency. Often confused with democrat.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | democratic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | /ˌdɛm.əˈkɹæt.ɪk/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #1,893 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for democratic is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌdɛm.əˈkɹæt.ɪk/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,893 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for democratic, with forms such as "ddemocratic", "demcoratic", and "demmocratic". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "democrat", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle French democratique (“pertaining to democracy, democratic”) (modern French démocratique), and its etymon Late Latin democraticus (“pertaining to democracy, democratic; democrat”), from Ancient Greek δημοκρᾰτῐκός (dēmokrătĭkós, “of or for democra… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is democratic, spelled D-E-M-O-C-R-A-T-I-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pertaining to democracy; constructed upon or in line with the principle of government chosen by the people.
- 2Exhibiting social equality; egalitarian.
- 3Alternative letter-case form of Democratic (“of, pertaining to, or supporting the Democratic Party”).
Etymology
From Middle French democratique (“pertaining to democracy, democratic”) (modern French démocratique), and its etymon Late Latin democraticus (“pertaining to democracy, democratic; democrat”), from Ancient Greek δημοκρᾰτῐκός (dēmokrătĭkós, “of or for democracy; favouring or suited for democracy”), from δημοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (dēmokrătĭ́ā, “democracy”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, suffix with the sense ‘of or pertaining’ to forming adjectives). Δημοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (Dēmokrătĭ́ā) is derived from δῆμος (dêmos, “the common people; free citizens, sovereign people; popular assembly; popular government, democracy”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂- (“to divide; to share”)) + -κρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (-krătĭ́ā, suffix meaning ‘government; rule’) (from κρᾰ́τος (krắtos, “might, strength; dominion, power”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kret- (“insight, intelligence; strength”)) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns)). By surface analysis, demo- + -cratic or democrat + -ic.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddemocratic,demcoratic,demmocratic,democartic,democcratic,democraitc,democratci,democraticc,democrattic,democrratic,democrtaic,demorcatic,deomcratic,dmeocratic,edmocratic
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Misspelling Variants of "democratic"
Frequency rank: #1,893 in English
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