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Words Ending In J
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There are 7 English words that end in J in the word list Wordton searches, ENABLE plus a curated modern supplement.
This is the complete list from our 173,000-word dictionary: every entry, with a note on what it is.
- haj13 ptsthe Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca; a variant of hajj
- raj10 ptsrule or sovereignty in India, as in the British Raj
- taj10 ptsa tall conical cap worn in Muslim countries
- hadj15 ptsanother spelling of hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca
- hajj21 ptsthe pilgrimage to Mecca that every able Muslim owes once
- svaraj16 ptsself-government in India; a variant of swaraj
- swaraj16 ptsIndian self-rule, the rallying word of the independence movement
Why so few?
A final J barely exists in English because the letter itself is a late arrival: it split off from I only a few centuries ago and settled at the starts of syllables, not the ends. Every word on this list is a loanword from Arabic, Hindi, or Sanskrit, carried in with its spelling intact.