jacquard
"jacquard" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“jacquard” is uncommon English (frequency #53,032 among 4,872 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,032
- frequency rank, English
- 4,872
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Fabric woven on a Jacquard loom.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jacquard |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,032 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jacquard” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
jacquard is uncommon English at frequency #53,032 among 4,872 “J” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for jacquard, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Eponym, from Joseph Marie Jacquard, inventor of the Jacquard loom. The correct English form is jacquard, spelled J-A-C-Q-U-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Fabric woven on a Jacquard loom.
- 2Fabric resembling a jacquard, but woven by a different process.
- 3A Jacquard loom.
Etymology
Eponym, from Joseph Marie Jacquard, inventor of the Jacquard loom.
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 “jacquard”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is J-A-C-Q-U-A-R-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.