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jugate

adjective, noun

jugate is spelled J-U-G-A-T-E: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, jugate means “Forming a pair” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in jugate?

Letters6: J-U-G-A-T-E
In writingabout once in every 87 million words; the 297,763rd 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 jugate?

Jugate appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd 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 jugate

  • jugates plural

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

What does jugate mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Forming a pair.

noun

  1. 1

    A portrait which depicts two side-by-side subjects with relative proximity.

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

Where does jugate come from?

Borrowed from Latin iugātus (“yoked together in pairs”), perfect passive participle of iugō (“to yoke”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix).

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

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