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Jomon

adjective, noun

Jomon is spelled J-O-M-O-N: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, Jomon means “Relating to an early Neolithic culture in Japan and Korea” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in Jomon?

Letters5: J-O-M-O-N
In writingabout once in every 28 million words; the 159,707th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is Jomon?

Jomon appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th 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).

Forms of Jomon

  • Jomons plural

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

What does Jomon mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Relating to an early Neolithic culture in Japan and Korea.

  2. 2

    Relating to pottery characteristic of this culture.

noun

  1. 1

    A member of this culture.

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

Where does Jomon come from?

From Japanese 縄文.

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

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