jettison
/ˈd͡ʒɛɾəsən/
"jettison" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“jettison” is uncommon English (frequency #50,612 among 4,872 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,612
- frequency rank, English
- 4,872
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Items that have been or are about to be ejected from a boat or balloon.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jettison |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈd͡ʒɛɾəsən/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jettison” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
jettison is uncommon English at frequency #50,612 among 4,872 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈd͡ʒɛɾəsən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for jettison, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Anglo-Norman getteson, from Old French getaison, from geter, jeter (modern French: would be *jetaison like pendaison); possibly from a Vulgar Latin *iectātiō, from *iectātus < iectāre, from Latin iactō. Doublet of jetsam. The correct English form is jettison, spelled J-E-T-T-I-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Items that have been or are about to be ejected from a boat or balloon.
- 2The action of jettisoning items.
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman getteson, from Old French getaison, from geter, jeter (modern French: would be *jetaison like pendaison); possibly from a Vulgar Latin *iectātiō, from *iectātus < iectāre, from Latin iactō. Doublet of jetsam.
This word in other languages
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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- The one correct English spelling is J-E-T-T-I-S-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.