English Words: J
4,872 words · Page 17 of 98
Childishly simple or obvious, resembling something found in a book for very young children.
Relating to Pierre Janet (1859–1947), pioneering French psychologist, philosopher and psychotherapist in the field of dissociation and traumatic memory.
A variety of English incorporating Japanese words or constructions; English heavily influenced by Japanese grammar or pronunciation.
A kind of local market or black market in North Korea that emerged since the famine in the 1990s.
A monoclinic-prismatic reddish brown mineral containing calcium, fluorine, hydrogen, iron, manganese, niobium, oxygen, silicon, sodium, titanium, and zirconium.
An infantry soldier, often of European Christian background from the Balkans as well as Eastern Europe and forcibly converted to Islam, in a former elite Turkish (Ottoman) guard (disbanded in 1826).
A pleco, pleco fish or plec: Any of several South and Central American fish, of the family Loricariidae.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter J contains 4,872 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 98 pages, and you are currently viewing page 17. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "J" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.