juke joint
"juke-joint" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“juke joint” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An informal drinking establishment featuring blues music and dancing; primarily operated by African Americans in the southeastern United States.
Corpus desk
Index EN-juke-joint · juke joint · English
juke joint · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "J" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | juke joint |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “juke joint” in English
Rare enough to double-check
juke joint is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how juke joint appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"She's black as tar... nappy-headed... She got legs like baseball bats. Her own daddy won't have nothing to do with her. She's no more than a jook-joint Jezebel. She ain't even clean."
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.