Obamacare
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The verdict
“Obamacare” is an uncommon German word, ranked #59,040 in German word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #59,040
- frequency rank, German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - eine durch den damaligen Präsidenten Barack Obama initiierte amerikanische Krankenversicherung, die auf dem Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act beruht
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Obamacare |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,040 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Obamacare” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Obamacare is 9 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. Corpus data places it at rank #59,040 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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
- 1eine durch den damaligen Präsidenten Barack Obama initiierte amerikanische Krankenversicherung, die auf dem Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act beruht
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.
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Using “Obamacare”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is O-B-A-M-A-C-A-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as […] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.