Gamelan

/[ˈɡaːməlan]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Gamelan is aGermannoun. It means: Orchester, Ensemble, das auf traditionellen, einheimischen Schlaginstrumenten (aber auch Blas- und/oder Saiteninstrumenten) aus Java und Bali spielt, besonders zu rituellen, kulturellen, sozialen A... Pronounced [ˈɡaːməlan].

Key facts for Gamelan
PropertyValue
HeadwordGamelan
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈɡaːməlan]
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Gamelan is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Gamelan is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɡaːməlan]. 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.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Gamelan in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Gamelan, spelled G-A-M-E-L-A-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Orchester, Ensemble, das auf traditionellen, einheimischen Schlaginstrumenten (aber auch Blas- und/oder Saiteninstrumenten) aus Java und Bali spielt, besonders zu rituellen, kulturellen, sozialen Anlässen
  2. 2
    Sammelbezeichnung für verschiedene Musikstile, die von [1] gespielt werden

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Gamelan"?
"Gamelan" is spelled G-A-M-E-L-A-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈɡaːməlan].
What does "Gamelan" mean?
As a noun, "Gamelan" means: Orchester, Ensemble, das auf traditionellen, einheimischen Schlaginstrumenten (aber auch Blas- und/oder Saiteninstrumenten) aus Java und Bali spielt, besonders zu rituellen, kulturellen, sozialen A...
How do you pronounce "Gamelan"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Gamelan" is [ˈɡaːməlan]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Gamelan" come from?
"Gamelan" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.