Amrum

[ˈamʁʊm]

/[ˈamʁʊm]/ name

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The verdict

“Amrum” is uncommon German (frequency #58,531 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#58,531
frequency rank, German
6,976
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine nordfriesische Insel vor der Westküste Schleswig-Holsteins

Corpus desk

Index DE-amrum · Amrum · German

Amrum · rank #58,531 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #58,531
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,976
  • PHOTO-FINISH americana

Nearest frequency peer: americana (-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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Amrum“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Amrum“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Amrum
PropertyValue
HeadwordAmrum
LanguageGerman
Part of speechProper noun
IPA[ˈamʁʊm]
Letters5
Frequency rank#58,531
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Amrum“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).Amrumfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

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

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „americana“ (#58,530), „Amtssitz“ (#58,532), „Alzenau“ (#58,529). Unter 6,976 „A“-Lemmata liegt „Amrum“ bei #58,531. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Amrum is uncommon German at frequency #58,531 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈamʁʊm]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine nordfriesische Insel vor der Westküste Schleswig-Holsteins".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Amrum, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Amrum, spelled A-M-R-U-M.

Definition

  1. 1
    eine nordfriesische Insel vor der Westküste Schleswig-Holsteins

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Die Insel Amrum lebt vom Tourismus, der Landwirtschaft und der Fischerei.
  2. Auf Amrum werden Verliebten und Hochzeitspaaren bei der Strandkorbvermietung Boyens Spezial-Strandkörbe geboten. Die sind mit Herzchen verziert, von Hand bemalt.

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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Amrum"?
"Amrum" is spelled A-M-R-U-M. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈamʁʊm].
What does "Amrum" mean?
As a proper noun, "Amrum" means: eine nordfriesische Insel vor der Westküste Schleswig-Holsteins
How do you pronounce "Amrum"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Amrum" is [ˈamʁʊm]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Amrum" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

allez#58,524škoda#58,498Zwirn#58,491zukam#58,482

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list