juke joint
"juke-joint" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“juke joint” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An informal drinking establishment featuring blues music and dancing; primarily operated by African Americans in the southeastern United States.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | juke joint |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “juke joint” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for juke joint is 10 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "An informal drinking establishment featuring blues music and dancing; primarily operated by African Americans in the southeastern United States.".
juke joint has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is juke joint, spelled J-U-K-E- -J-O-I-N-T.
Definition
- 1An informal drinking establishment featuring blues music and dancing; primarily operated by African Americans in the southeastern United States.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “juke joint”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is J-U-K-E- -J-O-I-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.