jinja
"jinja" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“jinja” is uncommon English (frequency #87,422 among 796 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,422
- frequency rank, English
- 796
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A Shinto place of worship.
Corpus desk
Index EN-jinja · jinja · English
jinja · rank #87,422 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,422
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 796
- PHOTO-FINISH jetliner
Nearest frequency peer: jetliner (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “jinja”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Jankowski
Jankowski
12,585 corpus weight
- janky
janky
12,584 corpus weight
- jetliner
jetliner
12,580 corpus weight
- jinja
jinja
12,579 corpus weight
- jitterbug
jitterbug
12,577 corpus weight
- jowl
jowl
12,575 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “jinja” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jinja |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #87,422 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jinja” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
jinja is uncommon English at frequency #87,422 among 796 “J” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A Shinto place of worship.".
jinja has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Japanese 神社 (じんじゃ, jinja), from Middle Chinese 神社, from Old Chinese 神社 (“sacrificial altar, shrine”), from 神 (*hlin, “deity, divine”) + 社 (*ɦljaːʔ, “Earth deity [and altar]”). Cognate with Mandarin 神社 (shénshè, “shrine”). The correct English form is jinja, spelled J-I-N-J-A.
Definition
- 1A Shinto place of worship.
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 神社 (じんじゃ, jinja), from Middle Chinese 神社, from Old Chinese 神社 (“sacrificial altar, shrine”), from 神 (*hlin, “deity, divine”) + 社 (*ɦljaːʔ, “Earth deity [and altar]”). Cognate with Mandarin 神社 (shénshè, “shrine”).
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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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.