Ultima Ratio

/[ˈʊltima ˈʁaːt͡si̯o]/ phrase

Letters

12 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Ultima Ratio is aGermanphrase. It means: das letztmögliche, äußerste Mittel zur Konfliktlösung, der letzte Ausweg Pronounced [ˈʊltima ˈʁaːt͡si̯o].

Key facts for Ultima Ratio
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HeadwordUltima Ratio
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈʊltima ˈʁaːt͡si̯o]
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Ultima Ratio 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 Ultima Ratio is 12 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʊltima ˈʁaːt͡si̯o]. 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: "das letztmögliche, äußerste Mittel zur Konfliktlösung, der letzte Ausweg".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Ultima Ratio 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 Ultima Ratio, spelled U-L-T-I-M-A- -R-A-T-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    das letztmögliche, äußerste Mittel zur Konfliktlösung, der letzte Ausweg

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Ultima Ratio"?
"Ultima Ratio" is spelled U-L-T-I-M-A- -R-A-T-I-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈʊltima ˈʁaːt͡si̯o].
What does "Ultima Ratio" mean?
As a phrase, "Ultima Ratio" means: das letztmögliche, äußerste Mittel zur Konfliktlösung, der letzte Ausweg
How do you pronounce "Ultima Ratio"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Ultima Ratio" is [ˈʊltima ˈʁaːt͡si̯o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Ultima Ratio" come from?
"Ultima Ratio" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.