yorkshire terrier

/[ˈjɔrkʃʲir ˈtɛrjɛr]/ noun

Letters

17 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

yorkshire terrier is aGermannoun. It means: Yorkshireterrier Pronounced [ˈjɔrkʃʲir ˈtɛrjɛr].

Key facts for yorkshire terrier
PropertyValue
Headwordyorkshire terrier
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈjɔrkʃʲir ˈtɛrjɛr]
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

yorkshire terrier 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 yorkshire terrier is 17 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈjɔrkʃʲir ˈtɛrjɛr]. 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: "Yorkshireterrier".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for yorkshire terrier 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 yorkshire terrier, spelled Y-O-R-K-S-H-I-R-E- -T-E-R-R-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Yorkshireterrier

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "yorkshire terrier"?
"yorkshire terrier" is spelled Y-O-R-K-S-H-I-R-E- -T-E-R-R-I-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈjɔrkʃʲir ˈtɛrjɛr].
What does "yorkshire terrier" mean?
As a noun, "yorkshire terrier" means: Yorkshireterrier
How do you pronounce "yorkshire terrier"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "yorkshire terrier" is [ˈjɔrkʃʲir ˈtɛrjɛr]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "yorkshire terrier" come from?
"yorkshire terrier" 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.