jockeying
"jockeying" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“jockeying” is uncommon English (frequency #67,556 among 796 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,556
- frequency rank, English
- 796
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of one who jockeys.
Corpus desk
Index EN-jockeying · jockeying · English
jockeying · rank #67,556 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,556
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 796
- PHOTO-FINISH Jilly
Nearest frequency peer: Jilly (-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 “jockeying”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- jammies
jammies
32,452 corpus weight
- jann
jann
32,450 corpus weight
- Jilly
Jilly
32,446 corpus weight
- jockeying
jockeying
32,445 corpus weight
- jussi
jussi
32,443 corpus weight
- kaji
kaji
32,440 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “jockeying” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jockeying |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,556 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “jockeying” in English
Rare enough to double-check
jockeying is uncommon English at frequency #67,556 among 796 “J” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of one who jockeys.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for jockeying, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is jockeying, spelled J-O-C-K-E-Y-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of one who jockeys.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jockeying appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Selfishness and rapacity would give place to a spirit of justice, equity, and benevolence; contentions, jockeyings, and altercations would cease; peace and concord would prevail, and righteousness and truth would shed their benign influence […]
Through the magazine and blanket distribution, the headset sales and overhead baggage jockeying, the seat next to mine remained empty. With any luck, I'd be able to flip up the armrest and stretch out a little, the better to sleep my way to Chicago.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).