Ingram

[ˈɪŋɡɹəm]

/[ˈɪŋɡɹəm]/ noun

The verdict

“Ingram” is uncommon German (frequency #74,730 among 1,488 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#74,730
frequency rank, German
1,488
“I” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ingram MAC-10, von Gordon Ingram entwickelte Maschinenpistole

Corpus desk

Index DE-ingram · Ingram · German

Ingram · rank #74,730 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #74,730
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,488
  • PHOTO-FINISH Informationss…

Nearest frequency peer: Informationsstand (-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 „Ingram“

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Ingram
PropertyValue
HeadwordIngram
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈɪŋɡɹəm]
Letters6
Frequency rank#74,730
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Ingram“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.Ingramfällt 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: „Informationsstand“ (#74,729), „Inhibitoren“ (#74,731), „Impressionisten“ (#74,728). Unter 1,488 „I“-Lemmata liegt „Ingram“ bei #74,730. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Ingram is uncommon German at frequency #74,730 among 1,488 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈɪŋɡɹəm]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ingram MAC-10, von Gordon Ingram entwickelte Maschinenpistole".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Ingram, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Ingram, spelled I-N-G-R-A-M.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ingram MAC-10, von Gordon Ingram entwickelte Maschinenpistole

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. „Johnson hatte die Wohnung am Gatehouse Drive aufgesucht, weil ihm Carrington Brown Geld für Kokain schuldete, und als sich Brown uneinsichtig zeigte, beendete Gwynn die Verhandlung mit einer langen Salve aus seiner Ingram, die sechs Schuss pro Sekunde ausspeien kann.“

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 "Ingram"?
"Ingram" is spelled I-N-G-R-A-M. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈɪŋɡɹəm].
What does "Ingram" mean?
As a noun, "Ingram" means: Ingram MAC-10, von Gordon Ingram entwickelte Maschinenpistole
How do you pronounce "Ingram"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Ingram" is [ˈɪŋɡɹəm]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Ingram" come from?
"Ingram" is a German word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list