job interview

noun

"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.

Key facts for job interview
PropertyValue
Headwordjob interview
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “job interview” sits in English frequency

job interview falls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    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.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "job interview"?
"job interview" is spelled J-O-B- -I-N-T-E-R-V-I-E-W.
What does "job interview" mean?
As a noun, "job interview" means: 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.
What language does "job interview" come from?
"job interview" is a English word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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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.
  • Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list