# Germanic

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /d͡ʒɜːˈmæn.ɪk/ · frequency rank #22,684

## Definitions
1. The early, undocumented ancestral language from which other Germanic languages developed, such as Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Frisian, English, German, Faroese, Icelandic, Yiddish, Norwegian and Swedish.
2. The group of Indo-European languages that developed from (Ur-)Germanic.

## Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin germānicus, equivalent to German + -ic.

## Easily confused with
- **Germany** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/germanic-vs-germany)
- **Germans** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/germanic-vs-germans)
- **German** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/german-vs-germanic)
- **Germain** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/germain-vs-germanic)

## Common misspellings (12)
`egrmanic`, `gemranic`, `geramnic`, `germainc`, `germanci`, `germanicc`, `germannic`, `germmanic`, `germnaic`, `gerrmanic`, `ggermanic`, `gremanic`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/germanic