down jacket
"down-jacket" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“down jacket” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A quilted jacket stuffed with down feathers.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | down jacket |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “down jacket” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for down jacket is 11 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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
- 1A quilted jacket stuffed with down feathers.
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.
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Using “down jacket”
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- The one correct English spelling is D-O-W-N- -J-A-C-K-E-T - 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.