# jacket

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/ · frequency rank #4,168

## Definitions
1. A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
2. A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat (US)
3. A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet.)
4. A police record.
5. In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
6. The tough outer skin of a baked potato.
7. A bastard child, in particular one whose father is unaware that he is not the child’s biological father.
8. A vest (US); a waistcoat (UK).

## Etymology
From Middle French jacquet, diminutive of Old French jaque.

## Easily confused with
- **jake** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jacket-vs-jake)
- **Janet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jacket-vs-janet)
- **jacks** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jacket-vs-jacks)
- **Jacky** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jacket-vs-jacky)
- **Jackie** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jacket-vs-jackie)
- **jockey** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jacket-vs-jockey)
- **jackpot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jacket-vs-jackpot)
- **jack** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jack-vs-jacket)
- **Jace** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jace-vs-jacket)
- **jacked** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jacked-vs-jacket)
- **jackal** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/jackal-vs-jacket)

## Common misspellings (9)
`ajcket`, `jaccket`, `jacekt`, `jackett`, `jackket`, `jackte`, `jakcet`, `jcaket`, `jjacket`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/jacket