Jubal
"jubal" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Jubal” is uncommon English (frequency #75,102 among 4,872 “J” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,102
- frequency rank, English
- 4,872
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A son of Lamech and Ada.
Corpus desk
Index EN-jubal · Jubal · English
Jubal · rank #75,102 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,102
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,872
- PHOTO-FINISH jund
Nearest frequency peer: jund (+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 “Jubal”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Jinny
Jinny
24,905 corpus weight
- Jordana
Jordana
24,904 corpus weight
- Joslin
Joslin
24,902 corpus weight
- Jubal
Jubal
24,899 corpus weight
- jund
jund
24,898 corpus weight
- kab
kab
24,895 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Jubal” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Jubal |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #75,102 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Jubal” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Jubal is uncommon English at frequency #75,102 among 4,872 “J” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A son of Lamech and Ada.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Jubal, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Hebrew יוּבָל (yūḇå̄l). The correct English form is Jubal, spelled J-U-B-A-L.
Definition
- 1A son of Lamech and Ada.
Etymology
Borrowed from Hebrew יוּבָל (yūḇå̄l).
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Jubal", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
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.