Romanes
[ʁomaˈnɛs]
The verdict
“Romanes” is uncommon German (frequency #86,994 among 2,984 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,994
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - stark dialektal zerklüftete indoarische Sprache der europäischen Roma mit Interferenzen aus den jeweiligen Kontaktsprachen (insbesondere dem Griechischen)
Corpus desk
Index DE-romanes · Romanes · German
Romanes · rank #86,994 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,994
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH rovere
Nearest frequency peer: rovere (+2 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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Romanes“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- ritterlichen
ritterlichen
13,012 corpus weight
- robustes
robustes
13,011 corpus weight
- Romanes
Romanes
13,007 corpus weight
- rovere
rovere
13,005 corpus weight
- Rufzeichen
Rufzeichen
13,002 corpus weight
- Rummelplatz
Rummelplatz
13,001 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Romanes“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Romanes |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʁomaˈnɛs] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,994 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Romanes“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Romanes is uncommon German at frequency #86,994 among 2,984 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ʁomaˈnɛs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "stark dialektal zerklüftete indoarische Sprache der europäischen Roma mit Interferenzen aus den jeweiligen Kontaktsprachen (insbesondere dem Griechischen)".
Romanes has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Romanes, spelled R-O-M-A-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1stark dialektal zerklüftete indoarische Sprache der europäischen Roma mit Interferenzen aus den jeweiligen Kontaktsprachen (insbesondere dem Griechischen)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Romanes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Romanes ist eine in Deutschland anerkannte Minderheitensprache.
„Die Verwandtschaft des Romanes mit den indischen Sprachen wurde zum ersten Mal von Johann Christian Christoph Rüdiger in seinem Aufsatz Von der Sprache und Herkunft der Zigeuner aus Indien (Rüdiger 1782) systematisch nachgewiesen.“
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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