Rum
[ʁʊm]
The verdict
“Rum” is a regularly-used German word, ranked #1,744 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #1,744
- frequency rank, German
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - aus Zuckerrohr, Melasse oder Saft durch Vergärung und Destillation gewonnener hochprozentiger Branntwein, der teilweise mit Karamellzucker gefärbt wird
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 | Rum |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʁʊm] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #1,744 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Rum” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Rum is 3 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʁʊm]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,744 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "aus Zuckerrohr, Melasse oder Saft durch Vergärung und Destillation gewonnener hochprozentiger Branntwein, der teilweise mit Karamellzucker gefärbt wird".
Rum has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RV", "RZ", "run", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Rum, spelled R-U-M.
Definition
- 1aus Zuckerrohr, Melasse oder Saft durch Vergärung und Destillation gewonnener hochprozentiger Branntwein, der teilweise mit Karamellzucker gefärbt wird
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.
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Using “Rum”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is R-U-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ʁʊm] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “RV” - see the side-by-side comparison. Rum vs RV
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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.