Jolyon
"jolyon" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Jolyon” is uncommon English (frequency #91,665 among 796 “J” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,665
- frequency rank, English
- 796
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A male given name from Latin, in quiet use since the 1920s.
Corpus desk
Index EN-jolyon · Jolyon · English
Jolyon · rank #91,665 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,665
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 796
- PHOTO-FINISH jollies
Nearest frequency peer: jollies (-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 “Jolyon”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Jaramillo
Jaramillo
8,345 corpus weight
- jel
jel
8,342 corpus weight
- jollies
jollies
8,337 corpus weight
- Jolyon
Jolyon
8,336 corpus weight
- JRPG
JRPG
8,334 corpus weight
- kadi
kadi
8,327 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Jolyon” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Jolyon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #91,665 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Jolyon” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Jolyon is uncommon English at frequency #91,665 among 796 “J” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A male given name from Latin, in quiet use since the 1920s.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Jolyon, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: Medieval spelling of Julian, revived by Galsworthy in Forsyte Saga. The correct English form is Jolyon, spelled J-O-L-Y-O-N.
Definition
- 1A male given name from Latin, in quiet use since the 1920s.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Jolyon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In that Summer of 1909 the simple souls who even then desired to simplify the English tongue, had, of course, no cognizance of little Jon, or they would have claimed him for a disciple. But one can be too simple in this life, for his real name was Jolyon, and his living father and dead half-brother had usurped of old the other shortenings, Jo and Jolly. A…
Etymology
Medieval spelling of Julian, revived by Galsworthy in Forsyte Saga.
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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