jaggery
/ˈdʒæɡəɹi/
"jaggery" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“jaggery” is uncommon English (frequency #80,576 among 4,872 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,576
- frequency rank, English
- 4,872
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A traditional dark-brown unrefined sugar made from palm tree sap which is used throughout South and Southeast Asia; (by extension) other types of unrefined sugar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jaggery |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈdʒæɡəɹi/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,576 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jaggery” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
jaggery is uncommon English at frequency #80,576 among 4,872 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈdʒæɡəɹi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for jaggery in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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: PIE word *ḱorkeh₂ Borrowed from Indo-Portuguese jágara, jagra, from Malayalam ചക്കര (cakkara, “jaggery”) or Tamil சக்கரை (cakkarai), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śarkarā, “candied or ground sugar; (chiefly in the plural) grit, gravel, shingle; gravelly soil; pebb… The correct English form is jaggery, spelled J-A-G-G-E-R-Y.
Definition
- 1A traditional dark-brown unrefined sugar made from palm tree sap which is used throughout South and Southeast Asia; (by extension) other types of unrefined sugar.
- 2A small-scale production plant that processes sugar cane to make sugar.
Etymology
PIE word *ḱorkeh₂ Borrowed from Indo-Portuguese jágara, jagra, from Malayalam ചക്കര (cakkara, “jaggery”) or Tamil சக்கரை (cakkarai), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śarkarā, “candied or ground sugar; (chiefly in the plural) grit, gravel, shingle; gravelly soil; pebble”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ (“boulder; gravel”). Doublet of sugar.
This word in other languages
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 “jaggery”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is J-A-G-G-E-R-Y - 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.