démocratie
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | démocratie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.mo.kʁa.si\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #2,038 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Régime 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.).
- 2État 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
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Misspelling Variants of "démocratie"
Frequency rank: #2,038 in French
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Nearby French words
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