jail fever
/ˈdʒeɪl fiːvə/
"jail-fever" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“jail fever” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - typhus spread in jails.
Corpus desk
Index EN-jail-fever · jail fever · English
jail fever · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "J" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jail fever |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈdʒeɪl fiːvə/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “jail fever” in English
Rare enough to double-check
jail fever is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈdʒeɪl fiːvə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for jail fever, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is jail fever, spelled J-A-I-L- -F-E-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1typhus spread in jails.
- 2any infectious disease spread in cramped and unhygienic conditions.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jail fever appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A'LTHO this Fever neither arose in a Jail, nor a Hospital, yet it so exactly re-sembles the Jail Fever, both in the symptoms, causes, and method of cure, that I have not scrupled to treat of it under that name.
I have now the satisfaction to see this opinion confirmed, in so far at least as relates to the dysentery, a putrid disease, equally contagious with the jail fever, and in military hospitals, at least, still more fatal.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.