jai
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The verdict
“jai” is uncommon German (frequency #62,537 among 699 “J” headwords), classed as an unknown. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,537
- frequency rank, German
- 699
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dativ Singular des Pronomens jei „sie“
Corpus desk
Index DE-jai · jai · German
jai · rank #62,537 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,537
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 699
- PHOTO-FINISH Jugendsprache
Nearest frequency peer: Jugendsprache (+1 rank slots)
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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „jai“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Irrungen
Irrungen
37,468 corpus weight
- Jahresbeitr…
Jahresbeitrag
37,466 corpus weight
- jai
jai
37,464 corpus weight
- Jugendsprac…
Jugendsprache
37,463 corpus weight
- Jugendstraf…
Jugendstrafrecht
37,462 corpus weight
- Jugendwort
Jugendwort
37,461 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „jai“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jai |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Unknown |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #62,537 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „jai“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
jai is uncommon German at frequency #62,537 among 699 “J” headwords, classed as anunknown, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dativ Singular des Pronomens jei „sie“".
No misspelling variants are generated for jai in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is jai, spelled J-A-I.
Definition
- 1Dativ Singular des Pronomens jei „sie“
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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