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
- notierten
notierten
40,964 corpus weight
- närrische
närrische
40,962 corpus weight
- Obamacare
Obamacare
40,961 corpus weight
- oberirdisch…
oberirdischen
40,960 corpus weight
- Oberösterre…
Oberösterreichs
40,959 corpus weight
- Ochsenhausen
Ochsenhausen
40,958 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Obamacare“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| 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) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Obamacare“ im Deutschen
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
- 1eine durch den damaligen Präsidenten Barack Obama initiierte amerikanische Krankenversicherung, die auf dem Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act beruht
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Obamacare appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Romney kritisiert das durch die Regierung 2010 erlassene Krankenkassengesetz, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, umgangssprachlich auch Affordable Care Act beziehungsweise Obamacare genannt.“
„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.
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