Wruke
[ˈvʁuːkə]
The verdict
“Wruke” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rübe mit dickfleischiger, gelber oder weißer, essbarer Wurzel (Brassica napus subsp. rapifera; Syn.: Brassica napus subsp. napobrassica)
Corpus desk
Index DE-wruke · Wruke · German
Wruke · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "W" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wruke |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvʁuːkə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Wruke“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Wruke is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈvʁuːkə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rübe mit dickfleischiger, gelber oder weißer, essbarer Wurzel (Brassica napus subsp. rapifera; Syn.: Brassica napus subsp. napobrassica)".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Wruke, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Wruke, spelled W-R-U-K-E.
Definition
- 1Rübe mit dickfleischiger, gelber oder weißer, essbarer Wurzel (Brassica napus subsp. rapifera; Syn.: Brassica napus subsp. napobrassica)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Wruke appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„‚[…] Du hätteſt ſie hören ſollen, Onkel, mit welcher Suffiſance ſie von »kleinen Verhältniſſen« ſprach und wie ſie das dürftige Kleinleben ausmalte, für das ſie nun mal nicht geſchaffen ſei; ſie ſei nicht für Speck und Wruken und all dergleichen …‘ ‚Hm,‘ ſagte Schmidt, ‚das gefällt mir nicht, namentlich das mit den Wruken. […]‘“
„Das Rund, das die Gefangenen umkreiſen, hat der Gärtner mit Wruken bepflanzt, die gerade angegangen ſind, ein ſpärliches Gelbgrün in dieſen traurigen, fahlen Farben von Schlacke, pulvriger Erde, Zement.“
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.