demonstration
/dɛmənˈstɹeɪʃən/noun
demonstration is spelled D-E-M-O-N-S-T-R-A-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is demostration: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 20 of all searches for the word. Demonstration is a noun meaning “The act of demonstrating; showing or explaining something”. The plural of demonstration is demonstrations.
How many letters and syllables are in demonstration?
| Letters | 13: D-E-M-O-N-S-T-R-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 11 times per million words; the 6,456th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, demostration, about 60 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell demonstration?
Demonstration is spelled D-E-M-O-N-S-T-R-A-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 21 of the searches for demonstration in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is demonstration?
Demonstration appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,456th 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).
How do you pronounce demonstration?
- US /dɛmənˈstɹeɪʃən/
Demonstration has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-demonstration.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with demonstration?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as demonstration from its last stressed vowel (/eɪʃən/):
- situation
- association
- population
- administration
- operation
- organization
- application
- location
- generation
- foundation
- conversation
- investigation
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of demonstration
- demonstrations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does demonstration mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of demonstrating; showing or explaining something.
- 2
slangA prisoner's act of beating up another prisoner.
- 3
An event at which something will be demonstrated.
I have to give a demonstration to the class tomorrow, and I'm ill-prepared.
- 4
Expression of one's feelings by outward signs.
- 5
A public display of group opinion, such as a protest march.
- 6
A show of military force.
- 7
A proof.
He read the proposition. […] So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition,; which proposition he read.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Demonstration in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | démonstration , manifestation |
| German | Demonstration , Kundgebung , Vorführung |
| Portuguese | demonstração , mostra |
| Spanish | demostración, demonstración , manifestación |
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 demonstration come from?
From Middle English demonstracioun, from Old French demonstration, from Latin dēmōnstrātiōnem, from dēmōnstrāre (“show or explain”), from dē- (“of or concerning”) + mōnstrāre (“show”). Morphologically demonstrate + -ion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).