How to spell jacket

Jacket is spelled J-A-C-K-E-T.

hear itjack·et/'dʒækɪt/nounSounds

What it means: A piece of clothing worn on the upper body.

In a sentence: Put on your jacket before we go outside.

Same family: jackets, dental-jacket, tooth-jacket, crown. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "jacket" originally meant a short coat and comes from Middle French "jaquet," a diminutive of "jaque" (a kind of tunic or coat of mail). In dentistry, the term was later borrowed to describe a protective covering for a tooth, similar to how a jacket covers and protects the body.

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