4 letter words with J

What is in this list

This list holds 97 words, under 0.1% of the 172,634 words this site keeps from the ENABLE word list. Every word here has 4 letters, and they average 4 letters by construction — so the interesting differences are in which letters they use. Of the 16 lists in this group it is the 9th largest: “6 letter words with A” leads with 6,569 and “4 letter words with Q” has the fewest, 16. 1 word that would also fit was left out by this site's blocklist of slurs and explicit words.

Points and vowels

Using this site's letter values, the average word here scores 15.7 points (median 15); words of the same lengths across the whole list average 8, so this list runs 7.7 points richer. The top scorers are JAZZ (27), HAJJ (24), JUJU (24), JEUX (21). Point for point, JAZZ earns the most per letter: 27 points over 4 letters, 6.8 each. J itself is worth 10 points here, which is why so many of these words outscore their length.

Vowels (A, E, I, O, U) make up 37.9% of the letters, against 38% across the whole list. 2 words are more than half vowels: AJEE and JIAO.

How the words are built

J opens 85 words (87.6%), closes 1 and sits inside the other 11. 2 words use it more than once, such as HAJJ and JUJU. 16 words have a doubled letter (16.5%); the most common doubles are EE (6), LL (2), SS (2). The most common three-letter openings are JEE- (5, as in JEED), JIN- (4, as in JINK), JIB- (3, as in JIBB). The most common endings are -OJO (2, as in DOJO), -ABS (1, as in JABS), -ACK (1, as in JACK). 20.6% end in a single S — mostly plurals and verb forms of shorter words.

Word play in this list

The biggest anagram family here is AJAR and RAJA — 2 words from the same 4 letters. Altogether 6 sets of anagrams sit inside this list, covering 12 words. 2 words turn into another real word when spelled backwards — AJAR becomes RAJA, RAJA becomes AJAR.

59.8% of these words take an S on the end and stay a word (DJIN, DOJO and FUJI among them); after S, the most useful end letter is Y, which extends 13 words. At the front, D turns 2 words into new ones (JINN → DJINN); A turns one word into a new one (JUGA → AJUGA).

Using this list

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