  Dark spots on the surface of active stars produce changes in the shapes of
the spectral lines that mimic spurious Doppler shifts, compromising the
detection of small planets by means of the radial velocity (RV) technique.
Modelling the spot-driven RV variability (known as ``jitter'') and how it
affects the RV data sets is therefore crucial to design efficient
activity-filtering techniques and inform observing strategies. Here, we
characterise starspots and simulate the radial velocity curves induced by them
to determine typical jitter amplitudes for a representative sample of 15 known
host stars spanning between F and M spectral type. We collect information on
the $\log R'_{\mathrm{HK}}$ activity index from the literature for 205 stars
and, due to a lack of data in the temperature range 4000-4500 K, we measure it
for ten stars using archival data. Additional stellar parameters required for
the simulations are collected from the literature or constrained by
observational data, in order to derive realistic estimates. Our results can be
used as reference to determine typical peak-to-peak spot-induced RV jitter in
the visible domain that can be expected when targeting host stars with
different properties.
