job interview
"job-interview" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“job interview” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A formal interview in which a job applicant must answer questions, especially in a professional manner, to determine whether they are suitable for the job applied for.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | job interview |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “job interview” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
job interview is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A formal interview in which a job applicant must answer questions, especially in a professional manner, to determine whether they are suitable for the job applied for.".
job interview doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is job interview, spelled J-O-B- -I-N-T-E-R-V-I-E-W.
Definition
- 1A formal interview in which a job applicant must answer questions, especially in a professional manner, to determine whether they are suitable for the job applied for.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “job interview”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is J-O-B- -I-N-T-E-R-V-I-E-W - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
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.