jilt
/d͡ʒɪlt/noun, verb
jilt is a noun meaning “A woman who readily casts aside her lover” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled J-I-L-T and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of jilt is jilts.
What does jilt mean?
noun
- 1
A woman who readily casts aside her lover.
verb
- 1
To cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce jilt?
- /d͡ʒɪlt/
Jilt 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-jilt.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of jilt
- jilts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- jilting participle, present
- jilted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is jilt?
Jilt appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th 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).
Jilt in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense to jilt:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | plaquer, quitter, abandonner |
| German | den Laufpass geben, verlassen, fallen lassen, sitzen lassen, einen Korb geben, verladen |
| Spanish | dejar, cortar, plantar, dar calabazas, planchar |
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 jilt come from?
Contraction of jillet (“a giddy girl, a jill-flirt”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).