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Romanian

/ɹoʊˈmeɪ.ni.ən/adjective, noun

Romanian is spelled R-O-M-A-N-I-A-N: 8 letters and 4 syllables. It appears 3.8 times per million words in written English, the 13,321st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, Romanian means “Of or relating to Romania, the Romanian people, or the Romanian language” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in Romanian?

Letters8: R-O-M-A-N-I-A-N
Syllables4 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing3.8 times per million words; the 13,321st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is Romanian?

Romanian appears 3.8 times per million words in written English, the 13,321st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce Romanian?

  • UK /ɹəʊˈmeɪ.ni.ən/
  • US /ɹoʊˈmeɪ.ni.ən/
  • US /ɹəˈmeɪ.ni.ən/

Romanian has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-Romanian.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with Romanian?

7 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as Romanian from its last stressed vowel (/eɪniən/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of Romanian

  • Rumanian
  • Roumanian
  • Romanians plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does Romanian mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or relating to Romania, the Romanian people, or the Romanian language.

    The oldest Romanian period (also known as Common Romanian, Proto-Romanian, Primitive Romanian) is the period prior to the separation of the four Romanian dialects: a north-Danubian dialect (Daco-Romanian) and three south-Danubian dialects (

noun

  1. 1

    A native or inhabitant of Romania.

  2. 2

    slangEllipsis of Romanian deadlift.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Romanian in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchroumain (of or relating to Romania, its people, or…), Roumain, Roumaine (native of Romania)
Germanrumänisch (of or relating to Romania, its people, or…), Rumäne, Rumänin (native of Romania)
Portugueseromeno (of or relating to Romania, its people, or…), romena (native of Romania)
Spanishrumano (of or relating to Romania, its people, or…), rumana (native of Romania)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does Romanian come from?

From Romania + -an.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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