jog
/d͡ʒɒɡ/
"jog" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“jog” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,626) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,626
- frequency rank, English
- 796
- “J” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An energetic trot, slower than a run, often used as a form of exercise.
Corpus desk
Index EN-jog · jog · English
jog · rank #19,626 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,626
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 796
- PHOTO-FINISH Isabelle
Nearest frequency peer: Isabelle (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “jog”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Inverness
Inverness
80,378 corpus weight
- Isabelle
Isabelle
80,376 corpus weight
- jog
jog
80,375 corpus weight
- jug
jug
80,373 corpus weight
- KGB
KGB
80,372 corpus weight
- kinder
kinder
80,371 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “jog” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jog |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /d͡ʒɒɡ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,626 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jog” sits in English frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for jog is neighbouring look-alikes ("Jr", "Ju", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /d͡ʒɒɡ/. Frequency #19,626 among 796 “J” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for jog, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Jr", "Ju", "JV", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Of uncertain origin. Originally with the meaning of "to shake up and down." Possibly from Middle English joggen, a variant of jaggen (“to pierce, prod, stir up, arouse”); see jag (“sharp projection”). Or, perhaps an early alteration of English shog (“to jol… The correct English form is jog, spelled J-O-G.
Definition
- 1An energetic trot, slower than a run, often used as a form of exercise.
- 2A sudden push or nudge.
- 3A flat placed perpendicularly to break up a flat surface.
- 4In card tricks, one or more cards that are secretly made to protrude slightly from the deck as an aid to the performer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jog appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Even when I gave her a jog with my elbow, she kept staring at her French book. Even when I gave her a nudge with my knee, she kept ignoring me.
This angle is somewhat more acute than that of the right and left walls of the Western box set; but unlike the walls of the box set, the Kabuki wall is never broken up by a jog or by a succession of jogs.
Etymology
Of uncertain origin. Originally with the meaning of "to shake up and down." Possibly from Middle English joggen, a variant of jaggen (“to pierce, prod, stir up, arouse”); see jag (“sharp projection”). Or, perhaps an early alteration of English shog (“to jolt, shake; depart, go”), from Middle English shoggen, schoggen (“to shake up and down, jog”), from Middle Dutch schocken (“to jolt, bounce”) or Middle Low German schoggen, schocken (“to shog”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *skukkōn (“to move, shake, tremble”), possibly related to *skakan (“to shake, stir”). More at shock.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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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.