jackpot

/ˈd͡ʒækpɒt/noun, verb

jackpot is spelled J-A-C-K-P-O-T: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 3.2 times per million words in written English, the 14,928th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, jackpot means “A money prize pool which accumulates until the conditions are met for it to be won” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of jackpot is jackpots.

How many letters and syllables are in jackpot?

Letters	7: J-A-C-K-P-O-T
Syllables	2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	3.2 times per million words; the 14,928th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is jackpot?

Jackpot appears 3.2 times per million words in written English, the 14,928th most frequent word form in the list.

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Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce jackpot?

/ˈd͡ʒækpɒt/

Jackpot has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-jackpot.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of jackpot

jackpots plural, present, singular, he/she/it
jackpotting participle, present
jackpotted participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does jackpot mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

1
A money prize pool which accumulates until the conditions are met for it to be won.
2
A large cash prize or money.
3
An unexpected windfall or reward.
4
A concentration of surface wood or fuel.
a juniper jackpot
5
A large accumulated point bonus, originally awarded after a long set of actions but now often easily available in multiball modes.
6
A ball game in which a thrower calls out a point value and whether the ball must be caught "alive" (in the air) or "dead" (having touched the ground), and a group of catchers compete to catch the ball.
7
USA difficult situation.
8
A jumble of felled timber.

verb

1
Of a slot machine, to issue a jackpot.
2
To fraudulently exploit an automatic teller machine so that it dispenses cash that has not been withdrawn from an account.