Winterjacke

/[ˈvɪntɐˌjakə]/ noun

The verdict

“Winterjacke” is an uncommon German word, ranked #51,034 in German word frequency and used as a noun.

#51,034
frequency rank, German
11
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: wärmende, meist gefütterte Jacke für den Winter

Key facts for Winterjacke
PropertyValue
HeadwordWinterjacke
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈvɪntɐˌjakə]
Letters11
Frequency rank#51,034
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Winterjacke” 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). Winterjacke 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 Winterjacke is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈvɪntɐˌjakə]. Corpus data places it at rank #51,034 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "wärmende, meist gefütterte Jacke für den Winter".

No misspelling variants are generated for Winterjacke 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 Winterjacke, spelled W-I-N-T-E-R-J-A-C-K-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    wärmende, meist gefütterte Jacke für den Winter

Antonyms

Frequency rank: #51,034 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Winterjacke"?
"Winterjacke" is spelled W-I-N-T-E-R-J-A-C-K-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈvɪntɐˌjakə].
What does "Winterjacke" mean?
As a noun, "Winterjacke" means: wärmende, meist gefütterte Jacke für den Winter
How do you pronounce "Winterjacke"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Winterjacke" is [ˈvɪntɐˌjakə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Winterjacke" come from?
"Winterjacke" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “Winterjacke”

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

  • The one correct German spelling is W-I-N-T-E-R-J-A-C-K-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [ˈvɪntɐˌjakə] (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 W 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.