Jared
/ˈd͡ʒæɹəd/
"jared" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Jared” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,772. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,772
- frequency rank, English
- 796
- “J” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A male given name from Hebrew of Biblical origin; rare in the English-speaking world until the 1960s.
Corpus desk
Index EN-jared · Jared · English
Jared · rank #9,772 · 6 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,772
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 796
- PHOTO-FINISH iso
Nearest frequency peer: iso (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Jared”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- inconsistent
inconsistent
90,232 corpus weight
- int
int
90,231 corpus weight
- iso
iso
90,230 corpus weight
- Jared
Jared
90,229 corpus weight
- Johnston
Johnston
90,228 corpus weight
- Judy
Judy
90,227 corpus weight
What this shows “Jared” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Jared |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈd͡ʒæɹəd/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #9,772 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Jared”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Jared (IPA /ˈd͡ʒæɹəd/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #9,772 among 796 “J” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Jared, with forms such as "ajred", "jaerd", and "jarde". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "Jed", "jars", "Javed", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin Iared, from Ancient Greek Ἰαρέδ (Iaréd), from Biblical Hebrew יֶרֶד (yéred). Often explained as deriving from the root י־ר־ד (y-r-d), which forms words relating to descending (see Jordan and ירדן for more); some interpret the Book of Enoch as sug… The correct English form is Jared, spelled J-A-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1A male given name from Hebrew of Biblical origin; rare in the English-speaking world until the 1960s.
- 2A man mentioned in the Book of Genesis, a descendant of Adam and of Seth, the father of Enoch, an ancestor of Noah.
- 3The ancestor of the Jaredites in the Book of Mormon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Jared appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Some experts, such as geographer Jared Diamond in his 2005 book, “Collapse,” used Easter Island as a cautionary tale of how the exploitation of limited resources can result in catastrophic population decline, ecological devastation and the destruction of a society through infighting.
And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
Etymology
From Latin Iared, from Ancient Greek Ἰαρέδ (Iaréd), from Biblical Hebrew יֶרֶד (yéred). Often explained as deriving from the root י־ר־ד (y-r-d), which forms words relating to descending (see Jordan and ירדן for more); some interpret the Book of Enoch as suggesting that the Jared in the Bible was so named because it was in his time that two hundred angels descended from Heaven to Mount Hermon. Alternatively, sometimes explained as deriving from the root ר־ד־ה (r-d-), which forms words relating to ruling.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ajred
- jaerd
- jarde
- jaredd
- jjared
- jraed
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Jared - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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