English Words: J
4,872 words · Page 4 of 98
A breed of terrier dog, usually white with brown patches and commonly found domesticated and kept as pets.
An irresponsible young man, seeking personal pleasure and gratification without any regard to responsibilities; a rogue.
A supposed individual who was an unidentified 19th century serial killer in England, who has become part of folklore.
A biannual plant distributed across Europe and North America (Tragopogon pratensis).
Children’s toy consisting of a small box from which a male figure pops out unexpectedly after some turnings of a crank.
Any of certain wild canids of the genera Lupulella and Canis, native to the tropical Old World and smaller than a wolf.
Diospyros mespiliformis, a large dioecious evergreen tree found mostly in the savannas of Africa.
A folkloric animal, a supposed cross between a jackrabbit and an antelope, goat, or deer, usually portrayed as a rabbit with antlers.
(A proper name for) an ape or monkey, especially a tame one kept for entertainment or as a pet.
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 4. 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.