démonstrative
\de.mɔ̃s.tʁa.tiv\
The verdict
“démonstrative” is uncommon French (frequency #65,893 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,893
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de démonstratif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-demonstrative · démonstrative · French
démonstrative · rank #65,893 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,893
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH démineur
Nearest frequency peer: démineur (-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 « démonstrative »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- délester
délester
34,111 corpus weight
- déments
déments
34,110 corpus weight
- démineur
démineur
34,109 corpus weight
- démonstrati…
démonstrative
34,108 corpus weight
- démoraliser
démoraliser
34,107 corpus weight
- dépeinte
dépeinte
34,106 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « démonstrative » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | démonstrative |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.mɔ̃s.tʁa.tiv\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #65,893 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « démonstrative » en français
Rare enough to double-check
démonstrative is uncommon French at frequency #65,893 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \de.mɔ̃s.tʁa.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de démonstratif.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for démonstrative in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 démonstrative, spelled D-É-M-O-N-S-T-R-A-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de démonstratif.
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.
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