Jambo
"jambo" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Jambo” is uncommon English (frequency #86,398 among 796 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,398
- frequency rank, English
- 796
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A member or fan of Heart of Midlothian F.C., a Scottish football club.
Corpus desk
Index EN-jambo · Jambo · English
Jambo · rank #86,398 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,398
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 796
- PHOTO-FINISH jawbreaker
Nearest frequency peer: jawbreaker (+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 “Jambo”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- iterator
iterator
13,607 corpus weight
- ivermectin
ivermectin
13,605 corpus weight
- Jambo
Jambo
13,603 corpus weight
- jawbreaker
jawbreaker
13,602 corpus weight
- Jaworski
Jaworski
13,601 corpus weight
- Jeannine
Jeannine
13,599 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Jambo” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Jambo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #86,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Jambo” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Jambo is uncommon English at frequency #86,398 among 796 “J” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A member or fan of Heart of Midlothian F.C., a Scottish football club.".
Jambo doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Diminutive of jam, from another nickname for the club, Jam Tarts, as rhyming slang for Hearts. The correct English form is Jambo, spelled J-A-M-B-O.
Definition
- 1A member or fan of Heart of Midlothian F.C., a Scottish football club.
Etymology
Diminutive of jam, from another nickname for the club, Jam Tarts, as rhyming slang for Hearts.
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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