ObamaCare
/oʊˈbɑ məˌkɛəɹ/
"obamacare" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ObamaCare” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #8,463. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,463
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Any of various healthcare plans seen as associated with Barack Obama before or during his tenure as U.S. President; especially, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590): a healthc...
Corpus desk
Index EN-obamacare · ObamaCare · English
ObamaCare · rank #8,463 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,463
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH nursery
Nearest frequency peer: nursery (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “ObamaCare”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- moss
moss
91,542 corpus weight
- MVP
MVP
91,540 corpus weight
- nursery
nursery
91,539 corpus weight
- ObamaCare
ObamaCare
91,538 corpus weight
- onion
onion
91,537 corpus weight
- Peru
Peru
91,535 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “ObamaCare” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ObamaCare |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /oʊˈbɑ məˌkɛəɹ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #8,463 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ObamaCare” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around ObamaCare (IPA /oʊˈbɑ məˌkɛəɹ/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #8,463 among 1,431 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Any of various healthcare plans seen as associated with Barack Obama before or during his tenure as U.S. President; especially, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590): a healthc...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for ObamaCare, with forms such as "boamacare", "oabmacare", and "obaamcare". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Blend of Obama (“Barack Obama”) + healthcare or Medicare and perhaps influenced by earlier HillaryCare. The correct English form is ObamaCare, spelled O-B-A-M-A-C-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1Any of various healthcare plans seen as associated with Barack Obama before or during his tenure as U.S. President; especially, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590): a healthcare reform plan that was passed in 2010 and signed into law by him.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ObamaCare appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
For some reason, Obama's senior economist, Austan Goolsbee, chooses not to believe this about Obamacare, possibly because he figures the private-but-regulated health-care plans in Obama's National Health Insurance Exchange would be more generous than Obama's public health-care plan.
This is a trick. This is a trick that's going on here. This idea that, that whether it's HillaryCare, or ObamaCare, or EdwardsCare, that idea that it's not socialized medicine is a trick. It's a massive growth in government control of medicine.
Etymology
Blend of Obama (“Barack Obama”) + healthcare or Medicare and perhaps influenced by earlier HillaryCare.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- boamacare
- oabmacare
- obaamcare
- obamaacre
- obamacaer
- obamacarre
- obamaccare
- obamacrae
- obamcaare
- obammacare
- obbamacare
- obmaacare
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ObamaCare - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ObamaCare", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).
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.