Juist

/[jyːst]/ name

The verdict

“Juist” is an uncommon German word, ranked #70,431 in German word frequency and used as a proper noun.

#70,431
frequency rank, German
5
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Insel in der Nordsee

Key facts for Juist
PropertyValue
HeadwordJuist
LanguageGerman
Part of speechProper noun
IPA[jyːst]
Letters5
Frequency rank#70,431
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Juist” sits in German frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). Juist lands here:

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

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Juist is 5 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [jyːst]. Corpus data places it at rank #70,431 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Insel in der Nordsee".

No misspelling variants are generated for Juist in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Juist, spelled J-U-I-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Insel in der Nordsee

Frequency rank: #70,431 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Juist"?
"Juist" is spelled J-U-I-S-T. The IPA pronunciation is [jyːst].
What does "Juist" mean?
As a proper noun, "Juist" means: Insel in der Nordsee
How do you pronounce "Juist"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Juist" is [jyːst]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Juist" come from?
"Juist" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “Juist”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is J-U-I-S-T — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [jyːst] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
  • Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words

Nearby German words

Other entries that begin with the letter J in our German index:

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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.