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

Key facts for Obamacare
PropertyValue
HeadwordObamacare
LanguageGerman
Part of speechProper noun
IPA[…]
Letters9
Frequency rank#59,040
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Obamacare” sits in German frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). Obamacare lands here:

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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    eine 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.

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?
"Obamacare" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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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.
  • Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list