Rhombus
[ˈʁɔmbʊs]
The verdict
“Rhombus” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - geometrische Figur mit vier gleichlangen und parallelen Seiten. Ein Rhombus ist ein Parallelogramm mit 4 gleichlangen Seiten
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rhombus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʁɔmbʊs] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Rhombus” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Rhombus is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʁɔmbʊs]. 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: "geometrische Figur mit vier gleichlangen und parallelen Seiten. Ein Rhombus ist ein Parallelogramm mit 4 gleichlangen Seiten".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Rhombus in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Rhombus, spelled R-H-O-M-B-U-S.
Definition
- 1geometrische Figur mit vier gleichlangen und parallelen Seiten. Ein Rhombus ist ein Parallelogramm mit 4 gleichlangen Seiten
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Rhombus”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is R-H-O-M-B-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈʁɔmbʊs] (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.