ramm
[ʁam]
The verdict
“ramm” is an uncommon German word, ranked #60,931 in German word frequency and used as a verb.
- #60,931
- frequency rank, German
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs rammen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ramm |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʁam] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #60,931 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ramm” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for ramm is 4 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʁam]. Corpus data places it at rank #60,931 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs rammen".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ramm in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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. The correct German form is ramm, spelled R-A-M-M.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs rammen
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 “ramm”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is R-A-M-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ʁam] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.