hit the jackpot
"hit-the-jackpot" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hit the jackpot” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - To receive a more favorable outcome than imagined, especially by good luck.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hit-the-jackpot · hit the jackpot · English
hit the jackpot · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" 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 | hit the jackpot |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hit the jackpot” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
hit the jackpot is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for hit the jackpot, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is hit the jackpot, spelled H-I-T- -T-H-E- -J-A-C-K-P-O-T.
Definition
- 1To receive a more favorable outcome than imagined, especially by good luck.
- 2To be accurate or correct.
- 3Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hit, jackpot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hit the jackpot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Before 1914, coal was a true cash-cow, and on paper, the GWR looked to have hit the jackpot by being handed all the railways in the South Wales coal fields.
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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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.