down jacket

noun

"down-jacket" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“down jacket” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
11
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A quilted jacket stuffed with down feathers.

Corpus desk

Index EN-down-jacket · down jacket · English

down jacket · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "D" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Key facts for down jacket
PropertyValue
Headworddown jacket
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “down jacket” in English

down jacketranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

down jacket is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A quilted jacket stuffed with down feathers.".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for down jacket, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is down jacket, spelled D-O-W-N- -J-A-C-K-E-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    A quilted jacket stuffed with down feathers.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how down jacket appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Robert was wearing a rabbit-fur hat that came down over his ears and a thick, old-fashioned down jacket.

This word in other languages

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "down jacket"?
"down jacket" is spelled D-O-W-N- -J-A-C-K-E-T.
What does "down jacket" mean?
As a noun, "down jacket" means: A quilted jacket stuffed with down feathers.
What language does "down jacket" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list