jabbed
/d͡ʒæbd/
"jabbed" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“jabbed” is uncommon English (frequency #64,454 among 4,872 “J” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,454
- frequency rank, English
- 4,872
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - simple past and past participle of jab
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jabbed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /d͡ʒæbd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,454 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jabbed” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
jabbed is uncommon English at frequency #64,454 among 4,872 “J” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /d͡ʒæbd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of jab".
jabbed has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is jabbed, spelled J-A-B-B-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of jab
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 “jabbed”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is J-A-B-B-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /d͡ʒæbd/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.