žert

/[ʒɛrt]/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

žert is aGermannoun. It means: ein Spaß, etwas Lustiges; Scherz, Witz, Streich Pronounced [ʒɛrt].

Key facts for žert
PropertyValue
Headwordžert
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ʒɛrt]
Letters4
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

žert 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 žert is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʒɛrt]. 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: "ein Spaß, etwas Lustiges; Scherz, Witz, Streich".

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

Definition

  1. 1
    ein Spaß, etwas Lustiges; Scherz, Witz, Streich

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "žert"?
"žert" is spelled Ž-E-R-T. The IPA pronunciation is [ʒɛrt].
What does "žert" mean?
As a noun, "žert" means: ein Spaß, etwas Lustiges; Scherz, Witz, Streich
How do you pronounce "žert"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "žert" is [ʒɛrt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "žert" come from?
"žert" 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.