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

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „jai“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for jai
PropertyValue
Headwordjai
LanguageGerman
Part of speechUnknown
IPA[…]
Letters3
Frequency rank#62,537
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „jai“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).jaifällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Jugendsprache“ (#62,538), „Jahresbeitrag“ (#62,535), „Jugendstrafrecht“ (#62,539). Unter 699 „J“-Lemmata liegt „jai“ bei #62,537. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Dativ 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "jai"?
"jai" is spelled J-A-I. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "jai" mean?
As an unknown, "jai" means: Dativ Singular des Pronomens jei „sie“
How do you pronounce "jai"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "jai" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "jai" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "jai", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list