social-démocratie
\sɔ.sjal.de.mɔ.kʁa.si\
The verdict
“social-démocratie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Doctrine politique socialiste non marxiste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-social-democratie · social-démocratie · French
social-démocratie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | social-démocratie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.sjal.de.mɔ.kʁa.si\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
social-démocratie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɔ.sjal.de.mɔ.kʁa.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
social-démocratie doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is social-démocratie, spelled S-O-C-I-A-L---D-É-M-O-C-R-A-T-I-E.
Definition
- 1Doctrine politique socialiste non marxiste.
- 2Doctrine politique prônant l’économie sociale de marché.
- 3État appliquant l’une des doctrines définies ci-dessus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how social-démocratie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La révolution n'ayant pas eu lieu, Guesde, les années 1890-1895, se rallie à l'idée de la conquête du pouvoir par le suffrage universel : après un flirt avec le boulangisme, c'est l'époque du « municipalisme », du socialisme ordonné et respectable à l'imitation de la social-démocratie allemande.
Les radsocs de l'époque, véritables précurseurs de la social-démocratie, situés à la droite de socialistes sur le demi-camembert électoral, passeraient aujourd'hui pour des gauchistes.
This word in other languages
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