romani

\ʁɔ.ma.ni\

/\ʁɔ.ma.ni\/ noun

The verdict

“romani” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,700. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#44,700
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue issue du sanskrit et qui unit les Roms malgré de nombreuses variantes.

Corpus desk

Index FR-romani · romani · French

romani · rank #44,700 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #44,700
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH romana

Nearest frequency peer: romana (-1 rank slots)

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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « romani »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « romani » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

romani vs Ronan
50% similar
romani vs royan
67% similar
romani vs Rowan
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for romani
PropertyValue
Headwordromani
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁɔ.ma.ni\
Letters6
Frequency rank#44,700
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « romani »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).romanise place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « romana » (#44,699), « rougeur » (#44,701), « routage » (#44,702). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « romani » est au #44,700. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around romani (IPA \ʁɔ.ma.ni\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,700 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for romani, with forms such as "ormani", "rmoani", and "roamni". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Ronan", "royan", "Rowan", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is romani, spelled R-O-M-A-N-I.

Definition

  1. 1
    Langue issue du sanskrit et qui unit les Roms malgré de nombreuses variantes.
  2. 2
    Abréviation de romanichel.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how romani appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ce sont des mots communs à la romani, mais qui ne se trouvent pas en hindi ou qui sont sous une forme phonologique différente.
  2. En dépit de ces évidences, un auteur — Fussman — n’hésite pas à placer le romani parmi les dialectes du Nord-Ouest de l’Inde.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ormani
  • rmoani
  • roamni
  • romanni
  • rommani
  • romnai
  • rromani

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of romani - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ormani2rmoani2roamni2romanni1rommani1romnai2rromani1
Edit distance from "romani"

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "romani"?
"romani" is spelled R-O-M-A-N-I. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁɔ.ma.ni\.
What does "romani" mean?
As a noun, "romani" means: Langue issue du sanskrit et qui unit les Roms malgré de nombreuses variantes.
What words are commonly confused with "romani"?
"romani" is commonly confused with "Ronan", "royan", "Rowan". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "romani"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "romani" is \ʁɔ.ma.ni\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "romani" come from?
"romani" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "romani", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list