démocratie

/\de.mo.kʁa.si\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,038

in French word usage

Misspellings

15

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

démocratie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Régime politique dans lequel le peuple dispose du pouvoir souverain et l’applique en respectant des principes démocratiques (cadre constitutionnel stable, respect de l’opposition et des minorités, ... Pronounced \de.mo.kʁa.si\. It ranks #2,038 in French word frequency. Often confused with démocraties and démocratique.

Key facts for démocratie
PropertyValue
Headworddémocratie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\de.mo.kʁa.si\
Letters10
Frequency rank#2,038
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of démocratie in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for démocratie is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.mo.kʁa.si\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,038 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 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 démocratie, with forms such as "ddémocratie", "democratie", and "dméocratie". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "démocraties", "démocratique", "démocratiser", 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 French form is démocratie, spelled D-É-M-O-C-R-A-T-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Régime politique dans lequel le peuple dispose du pouvoir souverain et l’applique en respectant des principes démocratiques (cadre constitutionnel stable, respect de l’opposition et des minorités, balance des pouvoirs, etc.).
  2. 2
    État organisé selon des principes démocratiques (cadre constitutionnel, respect de l’opposition et des minorités, balance des pouvoirs, etc.).

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ddémocratie,democratie,dméocratie,démcoratie,démmocratie,démocartie,démoccratie,démocraite,démocratei,démocrattie,démocrratie,démocrtaie,démorcatie,déomcratie,édmocratie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for démocratie

Misspelling Variants of "démocratie"

ddémocratie11democratie10dméocratie10démcoratie10démmocratie11démocartie10démoccratie11démocraite10
Misspelling Variants of "démocratie"

Frequency rank: #2,038 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "démocratie"?
"démocratie" is spelled D-É-M-O-C-R-A-T-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \de.mo.kʁa.si\.
What does "démocratie" mean?
As a noun, "démocratie" means: Régime politique dans lequel le peuple dispose du pouvoir souverain et l’applique en respectant des principes démocratiques (cadre constitutionnel stable, respect de l’opposition et des minorités, ...
What words are commonly confused with "démocratie"?
"démocratie" is commonly confused with "démocraties", "démocratique", "démocratiser". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "démocratie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "démocratie" is \de.mo.kʁa.si\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "démocratie" come from?
"démocratie" is a French 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.