jumping Jehoshaphat
"jumping-jehoshaphat" is a 18-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“jumping Jehoshaphat” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as an interjection - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Used to express astonishment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jumping Jehoshaphat |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jumping Jehoshaphat” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for jumping Jehoshaphat is 19 letters long, classified as an interjection. 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: "Used to express astonishment.".
jumping Jehoshaphat doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is jumping Jehoshaphat, spelled J-U-M-P-I-N-G- -J-E-H-O-S-H-A-P-H-A-T.
Definition
- 1Used to express astonishment.
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 “jumping Jehoshaphat”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is J-U-M-P-I-N-G- -J-E-H-O-S-H-A-P-H-A-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.