Jabberwocky
"jabberwocky" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Jabberwocky” is uncommon English (frequency #93,849 among 796 “J” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,849
- frequency rank, English
- 796
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A nonsensical poem that appears in Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll.
Corpus desk
Index EN-jabberwocky · Jabberwocky · English
Jabberwocky · rank #93,849 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,849
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 796
- PHOTO-FINISH Jacinda
Nearest frequency peer: Jacinda (+1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Jabberwocky”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Iskander
Iskander
6,159 corpus weight
- itchiness
itchiness
6,157 corpus weight
- Jabberwocky
Jabberwocky
6,152 corpus weight
- Jacinda
Jacinda
6,151 corpus weight
- Jamin
Jamin
6,145 corpus weight
- jati
jati
6,144 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Jabberwocky” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Jabberwocky |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #93,849 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Jabberwocky” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Jabberwocky is uncommon English at frequency #93,849 among 796 “J” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A nonsensical poem that appears in Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Jabberwocky in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: The name of a nonsense poem from the children's book Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1872) by Lewis Carroll. Apparently based on the Jabberwock, the monster described therein, with the suffix -y in imitation of classical epics such as… The correct English form is Jabberwocky, spelled J-A-B-B-E-R-W-O-C-K-Y.
Definition
- 1A nonsensical poem that appears in Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll.
Etymology
The name of a nonsense poem from the children's book Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1872) by Lewis Carroll. Apparently based on the Jabberwock, the monster described therein, with the suffix -y in imitation of classical epics such as the Odyssey.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).