Jurte
[ˈjʊʁtə]
The verdict
“Jurte” is uncommon German (frequency #89,133 among 7,951 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,133
- frequency rank, German
- 7,951
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - zerlegbares, beheizbares, leicht zu transportierendes Rundzelt der Nomaden in West- und Zentralasien, insbesondere in der Mongolei, aber auch in Kasachstan, Usbekistan und Turkmenistan
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Jurte |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈjʊʁtə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #89,133 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Jurte” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Jurte is uncommon German at frequency #89,133 among 7,951 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈjʊʁtə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "zerlegbares, beheizbares, leicht zu transportierendes Rundzelt der Nomaden in West- und Zentralasien, insbesondere in der Mongolei, aber auch in Kasachstan, Usbekistan und Turkmenistan".
Jurte doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Jurte, spelled J-U-R-T-E.
Definition
- 1zerlegbares, beheizbares, leicht zu transportierendes Rundzelt der Nomaden in West- und Zentralasien, insbesondere in der Mongolei, aber auch in Kasachstan, Usbekistan und Turkmenistan
This word in other languages
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Jurte”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is J-U-R-T-E - 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.