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demodulator

UK /dɪˈmɒdʃəleɪtə(ɹ)/noun

demodulator is a noun meaning “Any device that demodulates a signal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-E-M-O-D-U-L-A-T-O-R, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of demodulator is demodulators.

What does demodulator mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any device that demodulates a signal

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce demodulator?

  • UK /dɪˈmɒdʃəleɪtə(ɹ)/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Neøn-demodulator.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of demodulator

  • demodulators plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is demodulator?

Demodulator appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Demodulator in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense any device that demodulates a signal:

LanguageWords
Frenchdémodulateur
GermanDemodulator

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does demodulator come from?

From demodulate + -or.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).