democracia

/[d̪emoˈkɾasja]/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,032

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

15

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

democracia is aSpanishnoun. It means: Doctrina política que propicia la participación del pueblo en el gobierno. Pronounced [d̪emoˈkɾasja]. It ranks #1,032 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with demócrata and demografía.

Key facts for democracia
PropertyValue
Headworddemocracia
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[d̪emoˈkɾasja]
Letters10
Frequency rank#1,032
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of democracia in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for democracia is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪emoˈkɾasja]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,032 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 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 democracia, with forms such as "ddemocracia", "demcoracia", and "demmocracia". 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, "demócrata", "demografía", "democrática", 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 Spanish form is democracia, spelled D-E-M-O-C-R-A-C-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Doctrina política que propicia la participación del pueblo en el gobierno.
  2. 2
    Sistema político en que el pueblo elige a sus gobernantes.
  3. 3
    Estado regido por dicho sistema político.
  4. 4
    Por extensión, cualquier relación entre personas o grupos humanos que tienen una conducción con participación de sus bases.
  5. 5
    Sistema político en el que los ciudadanos, voluntarios, toman las decisiones de gobierno de su municipio y país.

Antonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ddemocracia,demcoracia,demmocracia,democarcia,democcracia,democracai,democraccia,democraica,democrasia,democrcaia,democrracia,demorcacia,deomcracia,dmeocracia,edmocracia

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for democracia

Misspelling Variants of "democracia"

ddemocracia11demcoracia10demmocracia11democarcia10democcracia11democracai10democraccia11democraica10
Misspelling Variants of "democracia"

Frequency rank: #1,032 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "democracia"?
"democracia" is spelled D-E-M-O-C-R-A-C-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is [d̪emoˈkɾasja].
What does "democracia" mean?
As a noun, "democracia" means: Doctrina política que propicia la participación del pueblo en el gobierno.
What words are commonly confused with "democracia"?
"democracia" is commonly confused with "demócrata", "demografía", "democrática". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "democracia"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "democracia" is [d̪emoˈkɾasja]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "democracia" come from?
"democracia" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.