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jangly

/ˈd͡ʒæŋɡli/adjective

jangly is spelled J-A-N-G-L-Y: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 98,107th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, jangly means “Accompanied by a jangling sound” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in jangly?

Letters6: J-A-N-G-L-Y
In writingabout once in every 11 million words; the 98,107th 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 jangly?

Jangly appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 98,107th 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 jangly?

  • /ˈd͡ʒæŋɡli/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-jangly.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of jangly

  • janglier comparative
  • jangliest superlative

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

What does jangly mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Accompanied by a jangling sound.

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

Where does jangly come from?

From jangle + -ly.

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

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