English Words: J
4,872 words · Page 55 of 98
Nonstandard form of joint, reflecting a pronunciation in which /ɔɪ/ has merged with /aɪ/, resulting in the latter.
Initialism of Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, a medical school in Pondicherry, India.
A Japanese fashion subculture featuring frilly, doll-like clothing and makeup imitating eyebags, associated with mentally ill young women.
To seek to maximise one's use of the fashion, makeup, and lifestyle of the jirai kei subculture.
Any of various agricultural pest rodents of genus Meriones or rodents of certain species in the genera Sekeetamys, Brachiones, and sometimes Pachyuromys.
A medieval steward of territory in Japan, especially in the Kamakura and Muromachi shogunates.
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 55. 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.