jessie
noun
jessie is spelled J-E-S-S-I-E: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 4.5 times per million words in written English, the 12,045th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, jessie means “Synonym of sissy: a cowardly, effeminate, or homosexual man, a girly man” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of jessie is jessies.
How many letters and syllables are in jessie?
| Letters | 6: J-E-S-S-I-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.5 times per million words; the 12,045th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is jessie?
Jessie appears 4.5 times per million words in written English, the 12,045th 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 jessie?
- Australia
Jessie has 2 syllables (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: En-au-Jessie.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of jessie
- jessies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does jessie mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
colloquialdatedSynonym of sissy: a cowardly, effeminate, or homosexual man, a girly man.
noun
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of jessie: a cowardly, effeminate, or homosexual man, a girly man.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does jessie come from?
From Jessie as a diminutive of Jane, Jean, etc., here used in their extended sense of any young working-class girl.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).