Yentl

/[ˈjɛntl̩]/ name

Letters

5 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Yentl is aGermanname. It means: weiblicher Vorname Pronounced [ˈjɛntl̩].

Key facts for Yentl
PropertyValue
HeadwordYentl
LanguageGerman
Part of speechName
IPA[ˈjɛntl̩]
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Yentl 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 Yentl is 5 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈjɛntl̩]. 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: "weiblicher Vorname".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Yentl 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 Yentl, spelled Y-E-N-T-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    weiblicher Vorname

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Yentl"?
"Yentl" is spelled Y-E-N-T-L. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈjɛntl̩].
What does "Yentl" mean?
As a name, "Yentl" means: weiblicher Vorname
How do you pronounce "Yentl"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Yentl" is [ˈjɛntl̩]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Yentl" come from?
"Yentl" 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.