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jito

noun

jito is spelled J-I-T-O: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, jito means “A medieval steward of territory in Japan, especially in the Kamakura and Muromachi shogunates” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of jito is jitos.

How many letters and syllables are in jito?

Letters4: J-I-T-O
In writingabout once in every 79 million words; the 282,993rd 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 jito?

Jito appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd 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).

Forms of jito

  • jitos plural

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

What does jito mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A medieval steward of territory in Japan, especially in the Kamakura and Muromachi shogunates.

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

Where does jito come from?

From Japanese 地頭.

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

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