applejack
"applejack" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“applejack” is an uncommon English word, ranked #62,677 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #62,677
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An alcoholic drink similar to apple brandy and calvados, made by freeze-distilling ("jacking") apple cider.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | applejack |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,677 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “applejack” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for applejack is 9 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #62,677 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "An alcoholic drink similar to apple brandy and calvados, made by freeze-distilling ("jacking") apple cider.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for applejack, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From apple + jack, referring to the increase in alcohol concentration due to freeze distillation. The correct English form is applejack, spelled A-P-P-L-E-J-A-C-K.
Definition
- 1An alcoholic drink similar to apple brandy and calvados, made by freeze-distilling ("jacking") apple cider.
Etymology
From apple + jack, referring to the increase in alcohol concentration due to freeze distillation.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “applejack”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-P-P-L-E-J-A-C-K - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.