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jolt

/d͡ʒoʊlt/verb, noun

jolt is spelled J-O-L-T: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,214th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, jolt means “To push or shake abruptly and roughly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in jolt?

Letters4: J-O-L-T
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.0 times per million words; the 28,214th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is jolt?

Jolt appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,214th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce jolt?

  • UK /d͡ʒɒlt/
  • UK /d͡ʒəʊlt/
  • US /d͡ʒoʊlt/

Jolt has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-jolt.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Back_ache-jolt.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with jolt?

6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as jolt from its last stressed vowel (/oʊlt/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of jolt

  • jolts present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • jolting participle, present
  • jolted participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does jolt mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    To push or shake abruptly and roughly.

    The bus jolted its passengers at every turn.

  2. 2

    To knock sharply

  3. 3

    To shock (someone) into taking action or being alert

    I jolted her out of complacency.

  4. 4

    To shock emotionally.

    Her untimely death jolted us all.

  5. 5

    To shake; to move with a series of jerks.

    The car jolted along the stony path.

noun

  1. 1

    An act of jolting.

  2. 2

    A surprise or shock.

  3. 3

    slangA long prison sentence.

  4. 4

    slangA narcotic injection.

  5. 5

    The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Jolt in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchballotter, cahoter, secouer, tressauter (to push or shake), soubresaut, secousse (act of jolting)
Germanschütteln, durchrütteln (to push or shake), einen Schlag versetzen (to deal a blow to), aufrütteln, wachrütteln (to shock into taking action), schwer treffen (to shock emotionally)
Portuguesesacudir (to push or shake)
Spanishsacudir (to push or shake), traquetear (to shake, move with a series of jerks)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does jolt come from?

Perhaps from joll (“to knock, strike”) + -t (frequentative suffix).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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