New Jersey
The verdict
“New Jersey” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a proper noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Bundesstaat im Nordosten der USA
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | New Jersey |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [nuːˈdʒɝzi] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “New Jersey” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for New Jersey is 10 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [nuːˈdʒɝzi]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Bundesstaat im Nordosten der USA".
No misspelling variants are generated for New Jersey 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 New Jersey, spelled N-E-W- -J-E-R-S-E-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bundesstaat im Nordosten der USA
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Using “New Jersey”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is N-E-W- -J-E-R-S-E-Y — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [nuːˈdʒɝzi] (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
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