démonstratifs

\de.mɔ̃s.tʁa.tif\

/\de.mɔ̃s.tʁa.tif\/ adj

The verdict

“démonstratifs” is uncommon French (frequency #81,095 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#81,095
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de démonstratif.

Corpus desk

Index FR-demonstratifs · démonstratifs · French

démonstratifs · rank #81,095 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #81,095
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH démarquant

Nearest frequency peer: démarquant (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Rangs de longue queue près de « démonstratifs »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « démonstratifs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for démonstratifs
PropertyValue
Headworddémonstratifs
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\de.mɔ̃s.tʁa.tif\
Letters13
Frequency rank#81,095
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « démonstratifs » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).démonstratifstombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « démarquant » (#81,094), « démontrable » (#81,096), « départage » (#81,097). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « démonstratifs » est au #81,095. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

démonstratifs is uncommon French at frequency #81,095 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \de.mɔ̃s.tʁa.tif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de démonstratif.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for démonstratifs, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is démonstratifs, spelled D-É-M-O-N-S-T-R-A-T-I-F-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de démonstratif.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. L’opérativité philosophique défactualise, et elle défactualise si bien qu’elle fait surgir à elle seule tout un monde – celui des enchaînements démonstratifs – où il n’y a plus de défaillance, de fatigue, de maladie, de mort.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "démonstratifs"?
"démonstratifs" is spelled D-É-M-O-N-S-T-R-A-T-I-F-S. The IPA pronunciation is \de.mɔ̃s.tʁa.tif\.
What does "démonstratifs" mean?
As an adjective, "démonstratifs" means: Masculin pluriel de démonstratif.
How do you pronounce "démonstratifs"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "démonstratifs" is \de.mɔ̃s.tʁa.tif\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "démonstratifs", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list