down jacket
"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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | down jacket |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “down jacket” in English
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
- 1A quilted jacket stuffed with down feathers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how down jacket appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.