Joab
/d͡ʒəʊ.æb/
"joab" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Joab” is uncommon English (frequency #79,654 among 796 “J” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,654
- frequency rank, English
- 796
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The nephew of King David, and son of Zeruiah
Corpus desk
Index EN-joab · Joab · English
Joab · rank #79,654 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,654
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 796
- PHOTO-FINISH jobsite
Nearest frequency peer: jobsite (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “Joab”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- jackdaw
jackdaw
20,352 corpus weight
- jehu
jehu
20,349 corpus weight
- Joab
Joab
20,347 corpus weight
- jobsite
jobsite
20,346 corpus weight
- Joburg
Joburg
20,345 corpus weight
- Jorgenson
Jorgenson
20,343 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Joab” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Joab |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /d͡ʒəʊ.æb/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #79,654 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Joab” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Joab is uncommon English at frequency #79,654 among 796 “J” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /d͡ʒəʊ.æb/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The nephew of King David, and son of Zeruiah".
Zero misspellings are on record for Joab in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is Joab, spelled J-O-A-B.
Definition
- 1The nephew of King David, and son of Zeruiah
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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