jane
/d͡ʒeɪn/noun
jane is spelled J-A-N-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 26 times per million words in written English, the 3,479th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, jane means “Alternative letter-case form of Jane, a woman” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of jane is janes.
How many letters and syllables are in jane?
| Letters | 4: J-A-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 26 times per million words; the 3,479th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is jane?
Jane appears 26 times per million words in written English, the 3,479th 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 jane?
- /d͡ʒeɪn/
Jane has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Back_ache-Jane.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with jane
Sounds like: Jain (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: jean.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with jane?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as jane.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: jean.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of jane
- janes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does jane mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of Jane, a woman.
- 2
Alternative spelling of jean.
- 3
A female client of a prostitute.
- 4
obsoleteA silver Genovese coin, first used in England in the 14th century.
14th c, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Rime of Sire Thopas, The Canterbury Tales, 1793, A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain, Volume 1, page 124, His robe was of chekelatoun, / That coste many a jane.
noun
- 1
colloquialused as a placeholder name for any woman, especially a young working-class woman
- 2
slangA girlfriend.
What happened to your regular Jane?
- 3
Alternative letter-case form of jane (“female client of a prostitute”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does jane come from?
Alternative forms.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).