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jaggies

noun

jaggies is spelled J-A-G-G-I-E-S: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, jaggies means “Jagged artifacts in raster graphics, such as those caused by resizing a bitmap image without preserving its aspect ratio” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in jaggies?

Letters7: J-A-G-G-I-E-S
In writingabout once in every 76 million words; the 275,970th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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

How common is jaggies?

Jaggies appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th most frequent word form in the list.

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

How do you pronounce jaggies?

  • UK

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-jaggies.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does jaggies mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    informalJagged artifacts in raster graphics, such as those caused by resizing a bitmap image without preserving its aspect ratio.

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

Where does jaggies come from?

From jaggy or jagged + -ie (“diminutive”) + -s (“plural”).

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

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