jousting
/ˈd͡ʒaʊstɪŋ/
"jousting" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“jousting” is uncommon English (frequency #51,793 among 796 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,793
- frequency rank, English
- 796
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A medieval European sport in which mounted knights charged at each other bearing lances.
Corpus desk
Index EN-jousting · jousting · English
jousting · rank #51,793 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,793
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 796
- PHOTO-FINISH journeying
Nearest frequency peer: journeying (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “jousting”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Jiro
Jiro
48,211 corpus weight
- journeying
journeying
48,209 corpus weight
- jousting
jousting
48,208 corpus weight
- juicer
juicer
48,207 corpus weight
- Justus
Justus
48,206 corpus weight
- Kalahari
Kalahari
48,205 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “jousting” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jousting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈd͡ʒaʊstɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jousting” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
jousting is uncommon English at frequency #51,793 among 796 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈd͡ʒaʊstɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for jousting, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is jousting, spelled J-O-U-S-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A medieval European sport in which mounted knights charged at each other bearing lances.
- 2Any activity in which two people spar with each other verbally.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.