Jacobin
/ˈd͡ʒæk.ə.bɪn/
"jacobin" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Jacobin” is uncommon English (frequency #58,774 among 796 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,774
- frequency rank, English
- 796
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of Dominican, a member of the Dominican Order, particularly its French chapter.
Corpus desk
Index EN-jacobin · Jacobin · English
Jacobin · rank #58,774 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,774
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 796
- PHOTO-FINISH Jacobean
Nearest frequency peer: Jacobean (-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 “Jacobin”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Ivanovich
Ivanovich
41,229 corpus weight
- Jacobean
Jacobean
41,228 corpus weight
- Jacobin
Jacobin
41,227 corpus weight
- Jacque
Jacque
41,226 corpus weight
- Jago
Jago
41,225 corpus weight
- jailbait
jailbait
41,224 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Jacobin” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Jacobin |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈd͡ʒæk.ə.bɪn/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,774 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Jacobin” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Jacobin is uncommon English at frequency #58,774 among 796 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈd͡ʒæk.ə.bɪn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
Jacobin doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English Jacobin, from Old French jacobin, from Latin Jācōbīnus, from Latin Jācōbus (“James, Jacob, etc.”) + -īnus (“-ine: forming adjectives”), from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (Ya'akóv), q.v. In reference to th… The correct English form is Jacobin, spelled J-A-C-O-B-I-N.
Definition
- 1Synonym of Dominican, a member of the Dominican Order, particularly its French chapter.
- 2A member of the Jacobin Club, a radical political club prominent during the French Revolution.
- 3A sympathizer or supposed sympathizer with the French political club or its aims of democracy and social equality.
- 4A leftist radical in other contexts.
- 5Synonym of Jacobite, a member of the Syriac Orthodox Church.
- 6Alternative letter-case form of jacobin, various birds.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Jacobin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The Jacobins acted as a left-of-centre parliamentary pressure group, spending much of their time in coordinating the following day's business in the Assembly.
Etymology
From Middle English Jacobin, from Old French jacobin, from Latin Jācōbīnus, from Latin Jācōbus (“James, Jacob, etc.”) + -īnus (“-ine: forming adjectives”), from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (Ya'akóv), q.v. In reference to the Dominican Order, from the proximity of their 1218 chapel and chapter house in Paris to the city's Porte Saint-Jacques, whose road formed an extension of the Way of St. James running to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. In reference to the Jacobin Club, from its 1789 founding at the former Dominican convent. In reference to the Syrian church, from Jacob bar Addai, bishop of Edessa during the mid-6th century.
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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