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jersey

jer·sey/ˈd͡ʒɝzi/noun

jersey is spelled J-E-R-S-E-Y: 6 letters and 2 syllables (jer·sey). It appears 46 times per million words in written English, the 2,204th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, jersey means “A garment knitted from wool, worn over the upper body” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of jersey is jerseys.

How many letters and syllables are in jersey?

Letters6: J-E-R-S-E-Y
Syllables2: jer·sey
In writing46 times per million words; the 2,204th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is jersey?

Jersey appears 46 times per million words in written English, the 2,204th 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 jersey?

  • UK /ˈd͡ʒɜːzi/
  • US /ˈd͡ʒɝzi/
  • /ˈd͡ʒɛrze/

Jersey has 2 syllables, split jer·sey in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vininn126-jersey.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with jersey?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as jersey from its last stressed vowel (/ɜɹzi/):

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 jersey

  • jerseys plural

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

What does jersey mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A garment knitted from wool, worn over the upper body.

  2. 2

    USA shirt worn by a member of an athletic team, usually oversized, typically depicting the athlete's name and team number as well as the team's logotype.

    A young boy was wearing a Manchester City Erling Haaland jersey.

  3. 3

    A type of fabric knit.

noun

as Jersey
  1. 1

    A breed of dairy cattle developed on Jersey.

    The Jersey is the queen of the creamery, in my neighbor's estimation.

  2. 2

    Any individual of this breed.

    She's our butter queen, our dandy Jersey, Mary Ann.

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

Jersey in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchjersey, tricot (garment knitted from wool, worn over the upper…), maillot (shirt worn by a member of an athletic team)
GermanPullover, Jersey (garment knitted from wool, worn over the upper…), Trikot (shirt worn by a member of an athletic team)
Portuguesemalha, jérsei (garment knitted from wool, worn over the upper…)
Spanishjersey, jérsey, yérsey, yersi (garment knitted from wool, worn over the upper…), camiseta, elástica (shirt worn by a member of an athletic team)

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 jersey come from?

From a typical fisherman's sweater used on the island of Jersey.

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

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