Yad Vashem

/[jat vaˈʃɛm]/ name

Letters

10 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Yad Vashem is aGermanname. It means: staatliche Gedenkstätte in Israel, die an die nationalsozialistische Judenvernichtung erinnert und sie wissenschaftlich dokumentiert Pronounced [jat vaˈʃɛm].

Key facts for Yad Vashem
PropertyValue
HeadwordYad Vashem
LanguageGerman
Part of speechName
IPA[jat vaˈʃɛm]
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Yad Vashem is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Yad Vashem is 10 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [jat vaˈʃɛm]. 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: "staatliche Gedenkstätte in Israel, die an die nationalsozialistische Judenvernichtung erinnert und sie wissenschaftlich dokumentiert".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Yad Vashem in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 Yad Vashem, spelled Y-A-D- -V-A-S-H-E-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    staatliche Gedenkstätte in Israel, die an die nationalsozialistische Judenvernichtung erinnert und sie wissenschaftlich dokumentiert

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Yad Vashem"?
"Yad Vashem" is spelled Y-A-D- -V-A-S-H-E-M. The IPA pronunciation is [jat vaˈʃɛm].
What does "Yad Vashem" mean?
As a name, "Yad Vashem" means: staatliche Gedenkstätte in Israel, die an die nationalsozialistische Judenvernichtung erinnert und sie wissenschaftlich dokumentiert
How do you pronounce "Yad Vashem"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Yad Vashem" is [jat vaˈʃɛm]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Yad Vashem" come from?
"Yad Vashem" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.