rumor

/[ʁuˈmoːɐ̯]/ verb

Letters

5 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

rumor is aGermanverb. It means: 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs rumoren Pronounced [ʁuˈmoːɐ̯].

Key facts for rumor
PropertyValue
Headwordrumor
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ʁuˈmoːɐ̯]
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

rumor is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for rumor is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʁuˈmoːɐ̯]. 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: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs rumoren".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for rumor in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 rumor, spelled R-U-M-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs rumoren

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rumor"?
"rumor" is spelled R-U-M-O-R. The IPA pronunciation is [ʁuˈmoːɐ̯].
What does "rumor" mean?
As a verb, "rumor" means: 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs rumoren
How do you pronounce "rumor"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rumor" is [ʁuˈmoːɐ̯]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rumor" come from?
"rumor" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby German words

Other entries that begin with the letter R in our German index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.