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jingly

/ˈd͡ʒɪŋɡli/adjective

jingly is spelled J-I-N-G-L-Y: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 40 million words in written English, the 194,306th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, jingly means “that jingles, having a jingling sound” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in jingly?

Letters6: J-I-N-G-L-Y
In writingabout once in every 40 million words; the 194,306th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is jingly?

Jingly appears about once in every 40 million words in written English, the 194,306th 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 jingly?

  • /ˈd͡ʒɪŋɡli/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-jingly.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of jingly

  • jinglier comparative
  • jingliest superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does jingly mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    that jingles, having a jingling sound.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does jingly come from?

From jingle + -y.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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