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jebel

/ˈd͡ʒɛbəl/noun

jebel is spelled J-E-B-E-L: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 63,645th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, jebel means “A hill, a mountain (especially in the Middle East or North Africa)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of jebel is jebels.

How many letters and syllables are in jebel?

Letters5: J-E-B-E-L
In writingabout once in every 5 million words; the 63,645th 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 jebel?

Jebel appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 63,645th 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 jebel?

  • /ˈd͡ʒɛbəl/

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

Forms of jebel

  • jebels plural
  • djebel

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

What does jebel mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A hill, a mountain (especially in the Middle East or North Africa).

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

Jebel in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense hill:

LanguageWords
Frenchangoisse, djebel
GermanDschebel, Hügel, Berg

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 jebel come from?

Borrowed from French djebel, from Arabic جَبَل (jabal, “mountain”).

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

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