paramour

/[ˈpa.ɹə.mʊə]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

paramour is aGermannoun. It means: eine Person, zu der eine verheiratete Person eine außereheliche Liebesbeziehung unterhält Pronounced [ˈpa.ɹə.mʊə].

Key facts for paramour
PropertyValue
Headwordparamour
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈpa.ɹə.mʊə]
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

paramour is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for paramour is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpa.ɹə.mʊə]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "eine Person, zu der eine verheiratete Person eine außereheliche Liebesbeziehung unterhält".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for paramour in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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

Definition

  1. 1
    eine Person, zu der eine verheiratete Person eine außereheliche Liebesbeziehung unterhält

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "paramour"?
"paramour" is spelled P-A-R-A-M-O-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈpa.ɹə.mʊə].
What does "paramour" mean?
As a noun, "paramour" means: eine Person, zu der eine verheiratete Person eine außereheliche Liebesbeziehung unterhält
How do you pronounce "paramour"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "paramour" is [ˈpa.ɹə.mʊə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "paramour" come from?
"paramour" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.