Ravi

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The verdict

“Ravi” is an uncommon German word, ranked #77,225 in German word frequency and used as a proper noun.

#77,225
frequency rank, German
4
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Fluss in Nordindien und Pakistan

Key facts for Ravi
PropertyValue
HeadwordRavi
LanguageGerman
Part of speechProper noun
IPA[…]
Letters4
Frequency rank#77,225
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Ravi” 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). Ravi lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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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 Ravi is 4 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. Corpus data places it at rank #77,225 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Fluss in Nordindien und Pakistan".

No misspelling variants are generated for Ravi in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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 Ravi, spelled R-A-V-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fluss in Nordindien und Pakistan

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 "Ravi"?
"Ravi" is spelled R-A-V-I. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "Ravi" mean?
As a proper noun, "Ravi" means: Fluss in Nordindien und Pakistan
How do you pronounce "Ravi"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Ravi" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Ravi" come from?
"Ravi" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “Ravi”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is R-A-V-I — 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.
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Nearby 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.

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

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