Roman
[ʁoˈmaːn]
The verdict
“Roman” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,859. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,859
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Literaturgattung: Erzählung in Buchform
Corpus desk
Index DE-roman · Roman · German
Roman · rank #1,859 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,859
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH quellen
Nearest frequency peer: quellen (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Roman“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- offiziell
offiziell
98,145 corpus weight
- PC
PC
98,144 corpus weight
- quellen
quellen
98,143 corpus weight
- Roman
Roman
98,142 corpus weight
- Schweden
Schweden
98,141 corpus weight
- starb
starb
98,140 corpus weight
What this shows „Roman“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Roman |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʁoˈmaːn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,859 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Roman“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Roman (IPA [ʁoˈmaːn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,859 among 2,984 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Roman, with forms such as "orman", "rmoan", and "roamn". 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. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ron", "rosa", "ROMs", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Roman, spelled R-O-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1Literaturgattung: Erzählung in Buchform
- 2ein konkretes Werk in der Form eines Romans
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Roman appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der Name der Rose" ist ein bekannter historischer Roman von Umberto Eco.
„Die Poesie als Dienerin der Beredsamkeit: dies war auch der didaktische Grundsatz von Christian Weise, der als Rektor des Gymnasiums zu Zittau und als Verfasser von Schauspielen, Romanen und zahlreichen Lehrbüchern gleichzeitig mit Thomasius und vielleicht wirkungsvoller noch als dieser der deutschen Stilbildung im 18. Jahrhundert den Weg gewiesen hat.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- orman
- rmoan
- roamn
- romann
- romman
- romna
- rroman
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Roman - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).