jitney

Other forms of jitney

plural

jitneys·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about jitney

What does jitney mean?

jitney means "a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport".

How many syllables are in jitney?

jitney has 2 syllables: jit-ney. The stress falls on "jit". In IPA it is /ˈdʒɪtni/.

What is another word for jitney?

Close synonyms include bus, autobus, coach, charabanc, double-decker. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jitney a common word?

jitney is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.