Karma

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Karma is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkaʁma]. Corpus data places it at rank #10,502 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Hauptglaubenssatz im Hinduismus, Buddhismus und Jainismus; das spirituelle Konzept, dass jede (physische und geistige) Handlung unweigerlich Folgen hat, die sich durch Schicksalsschläge während des...".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Karma, with forms such as "akrma", "kamra", and "karam". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "kaum", "Koma", "kart", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 Karma, spelled K-A-R-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.