quam ob rem

phrase

Letters

11 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

quam ob rem is aGermanphrase. It means: aus welchem Grund, weshalb, weswegen, warum

Key facts for quam ob rem
PropertyValue
Headwordquam ob rem
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

quam ob rem 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 quam ob rem is 11 letters long, classified as aphrase. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for quam ob rem 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 quam ob rem, spelled Q-U-A-M- -O-B- -R-E-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    aus welchem Grund, weshalb, weswegen, warum
  2. 2
    weshalb, weswegen
  3. 3
    deshalb, deswegen, daher

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quam ob rem"?
"quam ob rem" is spelled Q-U-A-M- -O-B- -R-E-M.
What does "quam ob rem" mean?
As a phrase, "quam ob rem" means: aus welchem Grund, weshalb, weswegen, warum
What language does "quam ob rem" come from?
"quam ob rem" 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.