social-démocrate
\sɔ.sjal.de.mɔ.kʁat\
The verdict
“social-démocrate” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Partisan de la social-démocratie ; socialiste non marxiste.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | social-démocrate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.sjal.de.mɔ.kʁat\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “social-démocrate” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for social-démocrate is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɔ.sjal.de.mɔ.kʁat\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
social-démocrate has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is social-démocrate, spelled S-O-C-I-A-L---D-É-M-O-C-R-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Partisan de la social-démocratie ; socialiste non marxiste.
- 2Membre ou partisan d'un parti membre de la Deuxième Internationale ; en principe socialiste marxiste.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “social-démocrate”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-O-C-I-A-L---D-É-M-O-C-R-A-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.