jonesing
"jonesing" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“jonesing” is uncommon English (frequency #98,296 among 796 “J” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,296
- frequency rank, English
- 796
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of jones
Corpus desk
Index EN-jonesing · jonesing · English
jonesing · rank #98,296 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,296
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 796
- PHOTO-FINISH jorts
Nearest frequency peer: jorts (+2 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 “jonesing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Jewess
Jewess
1,712 corpus weight
- Jimmer
Jimmer
1,709 corpus weight
- jonesing
jonesing
1,705 corpus weight
- jorts
jorts
1,703 corpus weight
- Jungfrau
Jungfrau
1,700 corpus weight
- Kadesh
Kadesh
1,698 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “jonesing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jonesing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #98,296 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “jonesing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
jonesing is uncommon English at frequency #98,296 among 796 “J” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of jones".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for jonesing, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is jonesing, spelled J-O-N-E-S-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of jones
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how jonesing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I'm jonesing for some peanuts.
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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