jiao
/dʒjaʊ/
"jiao" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“jiao” is uncommon English (frequency #63,721 among 796 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,721
- frequency rank, English
- 796
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A currency unit of the People's Republic of China, one tenth of a yuan.
Corpus desk
Index EN-jiao · jiao · English
jiao · rank #63,721 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,721
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 796
- PHOTO-FINISH Jenkin
Nearest frequency peer: Jenkin (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “jiao”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- jebel
jebel
36,282 corpus weight
- Jenkin
Jenkin
36,281 corpus weight
- jiao
jiao
36,280 corpus weight
- Jonesy
Jonesy
36,279 corpus weight
- journo
journo
36,277 corpus weight
- joyless
joyless
36,276 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “jiao” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jiao |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dʒjaʊ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #63,721 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “jiao” in English
Rare enough to double-check
jiao is uncommon English at frequency #63,721 among 796 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /dʒjaʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A currency unit of the People's Republic of China, one tenth of a yuan.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for jiao, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Mandarin 角 (jiǎo). Doublet of kak. The correct English form is jiao, spelled J-I-A-O.
Definition
- 1A currency unit of the People's Republic of China, one tenth of a yuan.
Etymology
Borrowed from Mandarin 角 (jiǎo). Doublet of kak.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).