jill
/d͡ʒɪl/verb, noun
jill is spelled J-I-L-L: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 6.5 times per million words in written English, the 9,463rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a vulgar verb, jill means “To masturbate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in jill?
| Letters | 4: J-I-L-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 6.5 times per million words; the 9,463rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is jill?
Jill appears 6.5 times per million words in written English, the 9,463rd 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 jill?
- US /d͡ʒɪl/
Jill has one syllable (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-us-Jill.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with jill
Also written: gill.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with jill?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as jill from its last stressed vowel (/ɪl/):
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 jill
- jills present, singular, he/she/it, plural
- jilling participle, present
- jilled participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does jill mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
slangvulgarTo masturbate.
Sue was fingering herself in my bed. IN MY BED. I couldn't believe it. I tried to pretend that I was still asleep but she caught me peeking as she was jilling herself.
noun
- 1
A female ferret.
- 2
A pelvic protector, a woman’s equivalent of a man’s jock.
noun
- 1
A young woman; a sweetheart; like the variant spelling Gill it was also associated with various assertive uses of the term flirt, as in flurt-gills (used by William Shakespeare for a 'woman of light or loose behavior').
- 2
A jillstrap: the female counterpart to a jockstrap.
Wiktionary also records jill as a common misspelling of another word in some uses; the senses above are its own.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does jill come from?
From the female name Jill.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).