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jaunt

/d͡ʒɔnt/noun, verb

jaunt is spelled J-A-U-N-T: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 47,073rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, jaunt means “A short excursion for pleasure or refreshment; a ramble; a short journey” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of jaunt is jaunts.

How many letters and syllables are in jaunt?

Letters5: J-A-U-N-T
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 3 million words; the 47,073rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
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 jaunt?

Jaunt appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 47,073rd 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 jaunt?

  • /ˈd͡ʒɔːnt/
  • UK /d͡ʒɔːnt/
  • US /d͡ʒɔnt/

Jaunt 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)-Vealhurl-jaunt.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with jaunt?

4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as jaunt from its last stressed vowel (/ɔnt/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: junta.

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 jaunt

  • jaunts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • jaunting participle, present
  • jaunted participle, past

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

What does jaunt mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    archaicA wearisome journey.

  2. 2

    A short excursion for pleasure or refreshment; a ramble; a short journey.

verb

  1. 1

    To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion.

  2. 2

    To ride on a jaunting car.

  3. 3

    obsoleteTo jolt; to jounce.

  4. 4

    obsoleteTo tire a horse by riding it hard or back and forth.

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

Jaunt in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchbalade, promenade (short excursion for pleasure or refreshment)
GermanAusflug, Vergnügungsfahrt, Spritztour (short excursion for pleasure or refreshment), herumstreunen, einen Ausflug machen (to ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an…)
Spanishpaseo (short excursion for pleasure or refreshment)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does jaunt come from?

Origin uncertain. Perhaps a palatalised alteration of daunt (“to discourage”). Compare Scots jaunder (“to ramble, jaunt to taunt, jeer”), dialectal Swedish ganta (“to play the buffoon, romp, jest”); perhaps akin to English jump. Compare jaunce. Modern usage likely influenced by jaunty.

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

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