Jom Kippur
[ˈjoːm kɪˈpuːɐ̯]
The verdict
“Jom Kippur” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - höchster jüdischer Festtag, der alljährlich (vom Sonnenuntergang des 9. Tischri bis zum Sonnenuntergang des 10. Tischri) begangen wird und den letzten der zehn mit dem Neujahrstag einsetzenden Bußt...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Jom Kippur |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈjoːm kɪˈpuːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Jom Kippur” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Jom Kippur is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈjoːm kɪˈpuːɐ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "höchster jüdischer Festtag, der alljährlich (vom Sonnenuntergang des 9. Tischri bis zum Sonnenuntergang des 10. Tischri) begangen wird und den letzten der zehn mit dem Neujahrstag einsetzenden Bußt...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Jom Kippur in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Jom Kippur, spelled J-O-M- -K-I-P-P-U-R.
Definition
- 1höchster jüdischer Festtag, der alljährlich (vom Sonnenuntergang des 9. Tischri bis zum Sonnenuntergang des 10. Tischri) begangen wird und den letzten der zehn mit dem Neujahrstag einsetzenden Bußtage markiert
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Jom Kippur”
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- The one correct German spelling is J-O-M- -K-I-P-P-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.