Ramadan
[ˌʁamaˈdaːn]
The verdict
“Ramadan” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #27,013. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,013
- frequency rank, German
- 42,116
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - der neunte Monat des islamischen Mondkalenders und heiliger Fastenmonat, während dem jeder gläubige Muslim (mit Ausnahmen wie unter anderem Kranke, Reisende, Schwangere und vorpubertäre Kinder) ver...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ramadan |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌʁamaˈdaːn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,013 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Ramadan” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Ramadan (IPA [ˌʁamaˈdaːn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,013 among 42,116 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "der neunte Monat des islamischen Mondkalenders und heiliger Fastenmonat, während dem jeder gläubige Muslim (mit Ausnahmen wie unter anderem Kranke, Reisende, Schwangere und vorpubertäre Kinder) ver...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ramadan, with forms such as "armadan", "raamdan", and "ramaadn". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Ramadan, spelled R-A-M-A-D-A-N.
Definition
- 1der neunte Monat des islamischen Mondkalenders und heiliger Fastenmonat, während dem jeder gläubige Muslim (mit Ausnahmen wie unter anderem Kranke, Reisende, Schwangere und vorpubertäre Kinder) verpflichtet ist, sich von Sonnenaufgang bis Sonnenuntergang des Essens, Trinkens und des Beischlafs zu enthalten
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- armadan
- raamdan
- ramaadn
- ramadann
- ramaddan
- ramadna
- ramdaan
- rammadan
- rmaadan
- rramadan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ramadan - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “Ramadan”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is R-A-M-A-D-A-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˌʁamaˈdaːn] (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
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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.