demonstrative pronoun

noun

"demonstrative-pronoun" is a 20-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“demonstrative pronoun” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
21
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - a pronoun that replaces a noun whose identity can be understood from the context; it indicates whether the noun is singular or plural, and whether it is near or far from the speaker or writer

Corpus desk

Index EN-demonstrative-pronoun · demonstrative pronoun · English

demonstrative pronoun · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 21 letters
  • VOW-8 8 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "D" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern

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Key facts for demonstrative pronoun
PropertyValue
Headworddemonstrative pronoun
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “demonstrative pronoun” in English

demonstrative pronounfalls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

demonstrative pronoun is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "a pronoun that replaces a noun whose identity can be understood from the context; it indicates whether the noun is singular or plural, and whether it is near or far from the speaker or writer".

demonstrative pronoun doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is demonstrative pronoun, spelled D-E-M-O-N-S-T-R-A-T-I-V-E- -P-R-O-N-O-U-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    a pronoun that replaces a noun whose identity can be understood from the context; it indicates whether the noun is singular or plural, and whether it is near or far from the speaker or writer

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how demonstrative pronoun appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Note: In English they are the same as the demonstrative adjectives - this, that, these and those

This word in other languages

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "demonstrative pronoun"?
"demonstrative pronoun" is spelled D-E-M-O-N-S-T-R-A-T-I-V-E- -P-R-O-N-O-U-N.
What does "demonstrative pronoun" mean?
As a noun, "demonstrative pronoun" means: a pronoun that replaces a noun whose identity can be understood from the context; it indicates whether the noun is singular or plural, and whether it is near or far from the speaker or writer
What language does "demonstrative pronoun" come from?
"demonstrative pronoun" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list