jigger

/[…]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

jigger is aGermannoun. It means: Setzmaschine Pronounced […].

Key facts for jigger
PropertyValue
Headwordjigger
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

jigger 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 jigger is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 16 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

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

Definition

  1. 1
    Setzmaschine
  2. 2
    Besanmast
  3. 3
    Besansegel
  4. 4
    Koppelspule
  5. 5
    Maßeinheit und das Gefäß bei der Zubereitung von Getränken; Barmaß
  6. 6
    Sandfloh
  7. 7
    Schüttelsieb
  8. 8
    Töpferschablone
  9. 9
    Draisine
  10. 10
    Gasse
  11. 11
    eine künstlich hervorgerufene Verletzung, Hautreizung, die benutzt wird, um Mitleid zu erregen (Bettlerei)
  12. 12
    Bezeichnung für einen Gegenstand, der nicht benannt werden kann/ will; Dingsda, Ding
  13. 13
    Brücke
  14. 14
    ein Golfschläger mit einem eng zulaufenden Kopf
  15. 15
    per Hand betriebener Wagen, mit dem Paletten umhergefahren werden; Hubwagen
  16. 16
    Vorrichtung, mittels derer ein Fischnetz zwischen zwei Löchern im Eis aufgespannt wird

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "jigger"?
"jigger" is spelled J-I-G-G-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "jigger" mean?
As a noun, "jigger" means: Setzmaschine
How do you pronounce "jigger"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "jigger" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "jigger" come from?
"jigger" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Other entries that begin with the letter J in our German index:

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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.