jomo
"jomo" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“jomo” is uncommon English (frequency #69,981 among 796 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,981
- frequency rank, English
- 796
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of dzomo (“female yak–cow hybrid”).
Corpus desk
Index EN-jomo · jomo · English
jomo · rank #69,981 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,981
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 796
- PHOTO-FINISH julienne
Nearest frequency peer: julienne (+4 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 “jomo”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Jatt
Jatt
30,026 corpus weight
- Jawa
Jawa
30,025 corpus weight
- jomo
jomo
30,020 corpus weight
- julienne
julienne
30,016 corpus weight
- Junie
Junie
30,015 corpus weight
- juried
juried
30,014 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “jomo” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jomo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #69,981 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “jomo” in English
Rare enough to double-check
jomo is uncommon English at frequency #69,981 among 796 “J” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative spelling of dzomo (“female yak–cow hybrid”).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for jomo, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Tibetan མཛོ་མོ (mdzo mo). The correct English form is jomo, spelled J-O-M-O.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of dzomo (“female yak–cow hybrid”).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how jomo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
c'''1882, Sarat Chandra Das, Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet, John Murray (1902), page 71, December 26.—The Deba has a dozen jomo and cows yielding plenty of milk. A jomo yields four times the quantity of milk which a cow or female yak gives. […] the Tibetans value very highly the jo, which is, besides a good milker, most useful in husbandry.
Etymology
Borrowed from Tibetan མཛོ་མོ (mdzo mo).
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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