Obamacare

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The verdict

“Obamacare” is uncommon German (frequency #59,040 among 1,007 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#59,040
frequency rank, German
1,007
“O” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine durch den damaligen Präsidenten Barack Obama initiierte amerikanische Krankenversicherung, die auf dem Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act beruht

Corpus desk

Index DE-obamacare · Obamacare · German

Obamacare · rank #59,040 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #59,040
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,007
  • PHOTO-FINISH närrische

Nearest frequency peer: närrische (-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 „Obamacare“

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Obamacare
PropertyValue
HeadwordObamacare
LanguageGerman
Part of speechProper noun
IPA[…]
Letters9
Frequency rank#59,040
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Obamacare“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).Obamacarefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „närrische“ (#59,039), „oberirdischen“ (#59,041), „Oberösterreichs“ (#59,042). Unter 1,007 „O“-Lemmata liegt „Obamacare“ bei #59,040. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Obamacare is uncommon German at frequency #59,040 among 1,007 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine durch den damaligen Präsidenten Barack Obama initiierte amerikanische Krankenversicherung, die auf dem Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act beruht".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Obamacare, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Obamacare, spelled O-B-A-M-A-C-A-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    eine durch den damaligen Präsidenten Barack Obama initiierte amerikanische Krankenversicherung, die auf dem Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act beruht

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. „Romney kritisiert das durch die Regierung 2010 erlassene Krankenkassengesetz, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, umgangssprachlich auch Affordable Care Act beziehungsweise Obamacare genannt.“
  2. „Die Gesundheitsreform, die unter dem Namen Obamacare bekannt ist, ist das wichtigste Projekt in der Amtszeit von Barack Obama. “

This word in other languages

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 "Obamacare"?
"Obamacare" is spelled O-B-A-M-A-C-A-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "Obamacare" mean?
As a proper noun, "Obamacare" means: eine durch den damaligen Präsidenten Barack Obama initiierte amerikanische Krankenversicherung, die auf dem Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act beruht
How do you pronounce "Obamacare"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Obamacare" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Obamacare" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list